TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brandon, Samuel 
TI  - Religion in ancient history : : studies in ideas, men and events 
AV  - BL27  .B7 1969
PY  - 1969///
CY  - London
PB  - George allen & unwin press
KW  - Religion.Story.Old Orient
N1  - The origin of religion : in theory and archaeology -- "In the beginning" : the Hebrew story of the creation in its contemporary setting -- The personification of death in some ancient religions -- Time as God and devil -- The idea of the soul : the history of man's most fundamental concept, pt. 1 : in the West -- The idea of the soul : the history of man's most fundamental concept, pt. 2 : in the East -- The judgment of the dead : the dawn of man's moral consciousness -- Osiris : the royal mortuary god of Egypt -- Akhenaten : the heretic king of Egypt -- The epic of Gilgamesh : a Mesopotamian philosophy of life -- The Jewish philosophy of history -- The book of Job : its significance for the history of religions -- Zarathustra and the dualism of Iran -- Herod the Great : Judaea's most able but most hated king -- The Jesus of history -- The trial of Jesus : the enigma of the first Good Friday -- Pontius Pilate in history and legend -- The fall of Jerusalem A.D. 70 -- The Zealots : the Jewish resistance against Rome A.D. 6-73 -- Josephus : renegade or patriot? -- Saint Paul : the problem figure of primitive Christianity -- The Gnostic problem in early Christianity -- The devil : in faith and history -- Angels : the history of an idea -- B.C. and A.D. : the Christian philosophy of history
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