01893nam a2200157Ia 4500008004100000041000800041050002000049100002100069245008700090260004700177300003400224505131200258650003101570952011701601999001701718220820s9999    xx            000 0 und d  aeng  aBL27 b.B7 1969  aBrandon, Samuel  0aReligion in ancient history : bstudies in ideas, men and events /cSamuel Brandon  aLondon:bGeorge allen & unwin press,c1969  axiv, 412 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aThe 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.  aReligion.Story.Old Orient.  00104070aGETSbGETSc GENd2022-08-20g24.50l0oBL27 .B7 1969p00028104r2022-08-20 00:00:00w2022-08-20yBK  c39998d39998