Bible Folk-Lore: A Study in Comparative Mythology (Classic Reprint)

It is an attempt to apply the principle of evolution to the history of Hebrew and Christian belief, and to lay before the public, for its consideration, the results which appear to the author to spring from the recent researches ofO rientalists, whether students of Semitic or of A ryan antiquities. Englishmen are as yet little aware, as a rule, of the vast stores of accurate and detailed information bearing on the comparative study of theB ible which have, through the patient labour of many scholars, been slowly accumulated during the last twenty years. They know, no doubt, that cuneiform inscriptions, and papyri, have been read, and that the sacred books of India and of Persia have been translated, but they do not know how fundamentally this increased knowledge affects the very basis of an examination of theB ible literature as a whole. The authors main contention is, then, that theB iblical literature can no longer be considered to stand alone as a unique production of genius or inspiration, but that its real origin and meaning can only be understood by the application of the comparative method which has as yet been only very imperfectly utilised in connection with theB ible traditions. The mythical hypothesis is not, it is true, a new one.
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