Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, covering the origin of religion, and studies of the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran. It also includes essays on key ideas such as creation, death, time, the soul, and the judgement of the dead, and studies of figures like Osiris, Akhenaten, Job and Zarathustra. The book also deals extensively with religious ideas, men and events in the first three centuries A.D. and the spread of early Christianity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Original Half Title
- 1 The Origin of Religion
- 2 ‘In the Beginning”
- 3 The Personification of Death in Some Ancient Religions
- 4 Time as God and Devil
- 5 The Idea of the Soul
- 6 The Idea of the Soul
- 7 The Judgment of the Dead
- 8 Osiris
- 9 Akhenaten
- 10 The Epic of Gilgamesh
- 11 The Jewish Philosophy of History
- 12 The Book of Job
- 13 Zarathustra and the Dualism of Iran
- 14 Herod the Great
- 15 The Jesus of History
- 16 The Trial of Jesus
- 17 Pontius Pilate in History and Legend
- 18 The Fall of Jerusalem A.D. 70
- 19 The Zealots
- 20 Josephus
- 21 Saint Paul
- 22 The Gnostic Problem in Early Christianity
- 23 The Devil
- 24 Angels
- 25 B.C. and A.D.: The Christian Philosophy of History
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index
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