The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia The Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divin ...

Contents Preface. Part I. The Religion Of Ancient Egypt. Lecture I. Introduction. Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. Other World. L ...

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Preface. The subject of the following Lectures was“The Conception of the Divine among the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians,”and ...

Preface. 3 On the one hand, they testify to the continuity of religious thought. God's light lighteth every man that cometh into ...

Part I. The Religion Of Ancient Egypt. Lecture I. Introduction. It was with a considerable amount of diffidence that I accepted ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 5 document may have survived to us out of a long series, like a single chapter out of a book, leading u ...

6 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia we have to read into the story, how scanty is the evidence, how disconnected are ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 7 If it is difficult to understand and describe with accuracy the religions which are living in our mid ...

8 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the pioneers of the civilisation we enjoy to-day, will be for us a hopeless puzzl ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 9 imperfect, and therefore evil in his nature. Indeed, the cruelties perpetrated by what we term nature ...

10 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia that the sacredness of the marriage tie or of family life, as we understand it, ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 11 of the Church. In the eyes of the Creator, the correct statement of abstruse metaphysical questions ...

12 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia in the right.” There is yet another danger against which we must guard when deal ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 13 Godhead, and use the language of the purest monotheism. But such monuments represent the beliefs and ...

14 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia resented by the orthodox adherents of the old creeds. My other example is taken ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 15 The Song of the Harper is not the only fragment of the sceptical literature of Egypt which we posses ...

16 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the cultured few. But there is still another error into which we may fall. It is ...