Flesh becomes word : a lexicography of the scapegoat or, the history of an idea / David Dawson.

Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term "scapegoat" has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While William Tyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by lot to escape the Day of Atonement...

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Main Author: Dawson, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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