The Twelve Religions of the Bible (1982 Wolfe), book

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The Twelve Religions of the Bible (1982) is a book by Rolland E. Wolfe.

Abstract

"Shows the Bible to be a succession of twelve relatively separate religions, eight in the Old Testament and four in the New: the Sumero-Akkadian religion of Genesis 1-11; the Aramaean religion of the patriarchal nomads; the Egypto-Midianite religion of Moses; Joshua's religion of genocide; the Canaanite-Hebrew religion of the Judges and Kings; the revolutionary religion of Israel's prophets; Judaism; the humanistic religion of poets and scholars; the Mandaean religion of John the Baptist; the spiritual religion of Jesus; Paul's mystical religion of the indwelling of Christ; and the apocalyptic religion of the Revelator."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1982 (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity, 2).

Contents

External links

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