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'''The Evolution of the Messianic Idea: a Study in Comparative Religion''' (1908) is a book by [[William O.E. Oesterley]]. 

==Abstract==

==Editions ==
Published in New York, NY: E.P. Duttan & Co., 1908.  First British edition published in London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1908.  Reprinted in Eugene, OR: Wipf. & Stock Publishers, 2004.

==Table of contents==

*Part I: The Antecedents of the Messianic Idea
**1. Introduction
**2. The Earliest forms of Myth Due to Elemental Characteristics in Man
**3. Floating Myth-Material was used by Old Testament Writers and Adapted to Higher Teaching
**4. The "Tehom-Myth"
**5. The "Tehom-Myth" Among the Hebrews
**6. The "Tehom-Myth" Among Other Peoples
**7. Extensions of the "Tehom-Myth"
**8. The "Jahwe-Myth"
**9. The "Jahwe (Heilbringer)-Myth" Among Other Peoples
**10. The "Paradise-Myth"
**11. The "Paradise-Myth" Among Other Peoples
*Part II: Some Examples of Adaptation and Development
**12. Summary of the Material Dealt With
**13. Satan
**14. The Messiah
**15. The Messiah (continued)
**16. The Messianic Era
**17. Conclusion

==External links==
*[http://www.archive.org/details/evolutionofmessi00oest Internet Archive (full text)]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OJpJ92hzSZwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Evolution+of+the+Messianic+Idea&ei=CFf6Sr6ZIYzKNei3haEP#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google Books (partial text)]



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