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Klauck has written a college-level reference to the religious practices that were common and widespread at the inception of Christianity. He examines antiquarian sacrificial cults; popular belief systems of the day—astrology, magic and soothsaying; the imperial cult worship of rulers and emperors; and Gnostic transformation. The Religious Context of Early Christianity is a scholarly researched...

lands on the altar, while the rest simply flows on to the earth and must be cleared up later on. The dead animal is now flayed with specialist skill and divided into portions. In Homer, the edible inner parts were at once roasted on the fire and eaten; among the Romans, this became the place for haruspicy, viz. the consulting of the innards (see III/B, 1(b) below). The bones, covered in fat and sprinkled with wine, were burnt on the altar for the gods (the small pieces of meat, mentioned in Homer,
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