The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture I. Introduction. 17 recourse to analogies from the world of phenomena, to metaphor and imagery, to parable and allegory. ...

18 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia from the outset, and the endeavour to interpret it with bald literality, and to ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 19 of those essentials of human life and progress of which no savage community has hitherto been found ...

20 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia to the modern European, this is no reason why we should deny the existence of th ...

Lecture I. Introduction. 21 two tendencies of thought which have found expression among [020] us in these words? Was St. Paul ri ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. It is through its temples and tombs that ancient Egypt is mainly known to us. It is true that the ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 23 a combination of ill-assorted survivals rather than a system, a confederation of separate cult ...

24 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia composed, at most, of three elements, the Asiatic invaders from the south, and t ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 25 it have been met with before the age of the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties, if, indeed, any have b ...

26 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the world; apart from the Parsi“towers of silence,”it is still the custom in New ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 27 was not easily to be reconciled with the mummified body which was eventually to lead a life in ...

28 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia latest of things jostled one another, and it was often difficult to say which of ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 29 to fuse them into a harmonious whole, and to explain away their apparent divergencies and cont ...

30 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia valley of the Nile, the Egyptian leads an open-air life. Except for the purpose ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 31 night, during the larger portion of the year. This steady toil in the open air gives no opport ...

32 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia himself overmuch with abstract thought. The concrete symbols were ever before hi ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 33 scheme which placed the Ennead or group of nine at the head of the Pantheon had been accepted ...

34 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia divine to which the Egyptian attained was that of“the nameless one,”since the na ...

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion. 35 garment was never separated from that which it covered; it was regarded as an integral part of ...

36 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [037] writing of the scribes and the pictures that adorned the walls of the temp ...