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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia
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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

by Sayce A H (Archibald Henry)

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The Religions of

Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

The Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine

Delivered in Aberdeen

By

Archibald Henry Sayce, D.D., LL.D.

Professor of Assyriology, Oxford

Edinburgh

T. & T. Clark, 38 George Street

1903


Contents

  • Preface.
  • Part I. The Religion Of Ancient Egypt.
  • Lecture I. Introduction.
  • Lecture II. Egyptian Religion.
  • Lecture III. The
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Imperishable Part Of Man And The Other World.
  • Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead.
  • Lecture V. Animal Worship.
  • Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt.
  • Lecture VII. Osiris And The Osirian Faith.
  • Lecture VIII. The Sacred Books.
  • Lecture IX. The Popular Religion Of Egypt.
  • Lecture X. The Place Of Egyptian Religion In The History Of Theology.
  • Part II. The Religion Of The Babylonians.
  • Lecture I. Introductory.
  • Lecture II. Primitive Animism.
  • Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia.
  • Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar.
  • Lecture V. Sumerian And Semitic Conceptions Of The Divine: Assur And Monotheism.
  • Lecture VI. Cosmologies.
  • Lecture VII. The Sacred Books.
  • Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics.
  • Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple.
  • Lecture X. Astro-Theology And The Moral Element In Babylonian Religion.
  • Index.
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