Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions: An Historical and Comparative Study Containing the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1954-1957 |
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... Egypt is simply that more material relevant to our subject has been preserved to us from ancient Egyptian culture , and it is by nature more impressive than that which we have inherited from Mesopotamia . Egypt shares , moreover , with ...
... Egypt is simply that more material relevant to our subject has been preserved to us from ancient Egyptian culture , and it is by nature more impressive than that which we have inherited from Mesopotamia . Egypt shares , moreover , with ...
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... Egyptian life , at least among the more reflective , it being fostered by peculiar environmental conditions , but apparently such pessimism did not lessen the Egyptians ' firm grasp on life nor produce an attitude of asceticism.1 Such ...
... Egyptian life , at least among the more reflective , it being fostered by peculiar environmental conditions , but apparently such pessimism did not lessen the Egyptians ' firm grasp on life nor produce an attitude of asceticism.1 Such ...
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... ( Egyptian ) ' , in E.R.E. , vol . IX ( 1917 ) . ' Ethics and Morality ( Egyptian ) ' , in E.R.E. , vol . V ( 1912 ) . ' Life and Death ( Egyptian ) ' , in E.R.E. , vol . VIII ( 1915 ) . GARDINER , A. H. , and SETHE , K. Egyptian Letters ...
... ( Egyptian ) ' , in E.R.E. , vol . IX ( 1917 ) . ' Ethics and Morality ( Egyptian ) ' , in E.R.E. , vol . V ( 1912 ) . ' Life and Death ( Egyptian ) ' , in E.R.E. , vol . VIII ( 1915 ) . GARDINER , A. H. , and SETHE , K. Egyptian Letters ...
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¹ Cf Accordingly Ahriman Ahura Mazdah Allah ancient Anthropologie religieuse appears ātman belief body Brandon Buddhist Buddhist Thought burial Chinese Christian concept concerned cult culture dead death deity divine doctrine Duchesne-Guillemin earth Egypt Egyptian Enkidu Enûma elish Epic of Gilgamesh Erman eschatology essential evidence evil existence expression fact faith fate funerary Gilgamesh gods gospel Granet Greek Hebrew Heidel human destiny human nature idea immortality Indian individual interpretation Iranian Israel Jesus Jewish living logic Lord magical man's mankind Mercer Mesopotamian Mithra moral mortuary Muḥammad namely nature and destiny Nilsson Numen Ohrmazd Oldenberg original Osiris Palaeolithic passage Paul philosophy post-mortem primitive Pyramid Texts Reallexikon regarded Religion represented resurrection Rig-Veda rites ritual S. G. F. Brandon seems significance Söderblom soteriology soul Speleers suggests Sumerian surely thou tion tomb tradition trans Upanisad Vedic Weltanschauung Widengren Yahweh Yahwist Yasna Zaehner Zarathustra Zeus Zoroastre Zurvan