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Title: Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions
Author: T. W. Doane
Release date: April 4, 2010 [eBook #31885]
Most recently updated: August 22, 2012
Language: English
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BIBLE MYTHS
AND THEIR
PARALLELS IN OTHER RELIGIONS
BEING A COMPARISON OF THE
Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles
WITH
THOSE OF HEATHEN NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY
CONSIDERING ALSO
THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING
BY T. W. DOANE
_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_
SEVENTH EDITION
"_He who knows only one religion knows none._"--PROF. MAX
MULLER.
"The same thing which is now called CHRISTIAN RELIGION existed
among the Ancients. They have begun to call Christian the true
religion which existed before."--ST. AUGUSTINE.
"Our love for what is old, our reverence for what our fathers
used, makes us keep still in the church, and on the very altar
cloths, symbols which would excite the smile of an _Oriental_,
and lead him to wonder why we send missionaries to his land,
while cherishing his faith in ours."--JAMES BONWICK.
COPYRIGHT,
1882.
COPYRIGHT RENEWED,
1910
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