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in antiquity was essentially a conditional self-cursing, i.e. invoking one or more deities and asking for their punishment in the event of breaking the oath. An oathbreaker was consequently considered the property of the gods whom he had invoked and then deceived. If the oathbreaker was killed, this
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is defined in legal terms as someone who can be killed without the killer being regarded as a murderer; and a person who cannot be sacrificed. The sacred human may thus be understood as someone outside the law, or beyond it. The term
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was understood as the revenge of the gods into whose power he had given himself. Since the oathbreaker was already the property of the oath deity, he could no longer belong to human society, or be consecrated to another deity.
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such as spoil taken in war, is dedicated to God and therefore sacred; but it is also accursed, so that if it is appropriated by a secular person, that person and even their family could become
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Giorgio Agamben - Homo Sacer, 1995 (Valdisholm publishing company, Norwegian translation), 2. part (Homo Sacer) 1.1. citing Sextus Pompeius Festus.
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Interview with Giorgio Agamben – Life, A Work of Art Without an Author: The State of Exception, the Administration of Disorder and Private Life
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A paper delivered by Andonis Tsonis at 'Forms of Legal Identity', 19th Annual Law & Society Conference, Melbourne, 10–12 December 2001
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denotes anything "set apart" from common society and encompasses both the sense of "hallowed" and that of "cursed". The
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is not fully congruent with the meaning it took after Christianization, and which was adopted into English as
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Benveniste, Émile (1973). "1: The "Sacred"". In Lin, Jeremy; Lewandowski, Jacqueline; Parson, Vergil (eds.).
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Mary R. Gerstein, Berkeley, California, 1974, "Germanic Warg: The Outlaw as Werwolf", in G.J. Larson, ed.,
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could also have been used because the condemned could only rely on protection of gods.
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which declares that any criminal must be judged by a tribunal before being punished.
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Homo sacer y violencia divina en el caso judío: lo insacrificable sometido a castigo
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could thus also simply mean a person expunged from society and deprived of all
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By Ulrich Raulff, German Law Journal No. 5 - Special Edition, 1 May 2004)
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Op-Ed piece by Slavoj Zizek on Terrorism and normalization of torture.
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written in the fifth century BC. The paragraph states that a
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both overlaps and also contrasts with the Hebrew concept of
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could fall upon one as a consequence of oath-breaking. An
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takes the concept as the starting point of his main work
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