Religion in Ancient History (1969 Brandon), book

Religion in Ancient History: Studies in Ideas, Men, and Events (1969) is a book by Samuel G.F. Brandon.

Editions and translations

Published in London [England]: Allen & Unwin; and New York, NY: Scribner, 1969.

Table of contents

• 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

External links

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