Religion in Ancient History
eBook - ePub

Religion in Ancient History

Studies in Ideas, Men and Events

  1. 426 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Religion in Ancient History

Studies in Ideas, Men and Events

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032766355
eBook ISBN
9781040036303
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Table of Contents
  10. Illustrations
  11. Original Half Title
  12. 1 The Origin of Religion
  13. 2 ‘In the Beginning”
  14. 3 The Personification of Death in Some Ancient Religions
  15. 4 Time as God and Devil
  16. 5 The Idea of the Soul
  17. 6 The Idea of the Soul
  18. 7 The Judgment of the Dead
  19. 8 Osiris
  20. 9 Akhenaten
  21. 10 The Epic of Gilgamesh
  22. 11 The Jewish Philosophy of History
  23. 12 The Book of Job
  24. 13 Zarathustra and the Dualism of Iran
  25. 14 Herod the Great
  26. 15 The Jesus of History
  27. 16 The Trial of Jesus
  28. 17 Pontius Pilate in History and Legend
  29. 18 The Fall of Jerusalem A.D. 70
  30. 19 The Zealots
  31. 20 Josephus
  32. 21 Saint Paul
  33. 22 The Gnostic Problem in Early Christianity
  34. 23 The Devil
  35. 24 Angels
  36. 25 B.C. and A.D.: The Christian Philosophy of History
  37. Annotated Bibliography
  38. Index