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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia
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Preface
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Egyptian Religion
Lecture 3: The Imperishable Part of Man and the Other World
Lecture 4: The Sun-God and the Ennead
Lecture 5: Animal Worship
Lecture 6: The Gods of Egypt
Lecture 7: Osiris and the Osirian Faith
Lecture 8: The Sacred Books
Lecture 9: The Popular Religion of Egypt
Lecture 10: The Place of Egyptian Religion in the History of Theology
Lecture 1: Introductory
Lecture 2: Primitive Animism
Lecture 3: The Gods of Babylonia
Lecture 4: The Sun-God and Istar
Lecture 5: Sumerian and Semitic Conceptions of the Divine: Assur and Monotheism
Lecture 6: Cosmologies
Lecture 7: The Sacred Books
Lecture 8: The Myths and Epics
Lecture 9: The Ritual of the Temple
Lecture 10: Astro-Theology and the Moral Element in Babylonian Religion
Edinburgh
T. & T. Clark
1903

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