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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Page 52
... given to provide the dead man with food and drink ; however , a little further on comes the avowal , after telling of other virtuous actions : ' I desired that it might be well with me in the Great God's presence ' . This sounds like ...
... given to provide the dead man with food and drink ; however , a little further on comes the avowal , after telling of other virtuous actions : ' I desired that it might be well with me in the Great God's presence ' . This sounds like ...
Page 99
... given ' the tablets of destiny ' to her favourite Kingu , and that on the destruction of Ti'âmat and Kingu the victorious Marduk had taken the tablets for his own possession . These tablets do not appear to have been oracles concerning ...
... given ' the tablets of destiny ' to her favourite Kingu , and that on the destruction of Ti'âmat and Kingu the victorious Marduk had taken the tablets for his own possession . These tablets do not appear to have been oracles concerning ...
Page 128
... given some clue to the Yahwist's use of ancient folk material in this part of his narrative : however , for our purpose the point is not important , and of more consequence is it to note how the Yahwist has utilised this ancient legend ...
... given some clue to the Yahwist's use of ancient folk material in this part of his narrative : however , for our purpose the point is not important , and of more consequence is it to note how the Yahwist has utilised this ancient legend ...
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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