Forerunners and rivals of Christianity, vol. 1 (of 2)
by Francis Legge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Legge, Francis, 1853-1922
- Title
- Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 1 (of 2)
- Original Publication
- Cambridge: University Press, 1915.
- Credits
- Wouter Franssen, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity
- Subject
- Religions
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 71384
- Release Date
- August 10, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FORERUNNERS AND RIVALS OF CHRISTIANITY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.ERRATA
- 4.CONTENTS — TABLE OF DATES — BOOKS AND ARTICLES REFERRED TO IN TEXT OR NOTES
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.CHAPTER I THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER
- 7.CHAPTER II THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
- 8.CHAPTER III THE ORIGIN OF GNOSTICISM
- 9.CHAPTER IV PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI — HYMN TO PERSEPHONE [439] . — [HYMN] OF MISE—PERFUME: STORAX [443] .
- 10.CHAPTER V PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES
- 11.CHAPTER VI PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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