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29.
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Isa. iii.
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Ch. xii. 10
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Ch. viii. 14.
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Frazer, “The Golden Bough,” 1900, ii. 196
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Frazer, “Adonis, Attis, Osiris,” 1908, 128
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“The Golden Bough,” i., iii. 20
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Verse 14.
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1 Gen. xv. 17.
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Ghillany,
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J. M. Robertson, “Pagan Christs,” 140–148. It cannot be sufficiently insisted upon that it was only under Persian influence that Jahwe was separated from the Gods of the other Semitic races, from Baal, Melkart, Moloch, Chemosh, &c., with whom hitherto he had been almost completely identified; also that it was only through being worked upon by Hellenistic civilisation that he became that “unique” God, of whom we usually think on hearing the name. The idea of a special religious position of the Jewish people, the expression of which was Jahwe, above all belongs to those myths of religious history which one repeats to another without thought, but which science should finally put out of the way.
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“Golden Bough,” iii. 138–146.
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Movers,
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VI. 47
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Cf. Gunkel, “Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit,” 1895. 309
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Ch. viii. 15. Cf. also vi. 8, 9.
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“Abhandlungen d. Kgl. Ges. d. Wissenschaften zu Göttingen,” xxxiv.
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Cf. also P. Wendland, “Ztschr. Hermes,” xxxiii., 1898, 175
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In the same way the Phrygian Attis, whose name characterises him as himself the “father,” was also honoured as the “son,” beloved and spouse of Cybele, the mother Goddess. He thus varied between a Father God, the high King of Heaven, and the divine Son of that God.
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Frazer,
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Keim, “Geschichte Jesu,” 1873, 331 note.
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Ghillany,
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2 Sam. xxi. 9; cf. Lev. xxiii. 10–14.
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“Hist.,” xviii. 7.
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2 Kings iii. 27.
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“Hist. Nat.,” xxxiv. 4, § 26.
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Mentioned in Eusebius, “Praeparatio Evangelica,” i. 10. Cf. Movers,
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“Der Mythus bei den Hebräern,” 1876, 109–113.
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Cf. Ghillany,
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Numb. xx. 22
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Deut. xviii. 15.
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Cf. Heb. v.
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Diodorus Siculus, ii. 44.
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Justin, “Dial. cum Tryphone,” cap. xc.
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Schürer,
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See above, page 40
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Cf. Eisenmenger,
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Kautzsch, “Pseudoepigraphen,” 500.
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Winckler,
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Gen. xl.
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Luke xxiii. 39–43; cf. also Isa. lxxx. 12.
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Jos. v. 2
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Amos viii. 10; cf. Movers,
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Cf. Robertson, “Pagan Christs,” 157.
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Numb. xiv.
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1 Chron. iv. 11.
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Judges ii. 9.
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Cf. Nork, “Realwörterbuch,” 1843–5, ii. 301
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Cf. on whole subject Martin Brückner, “Der sterbende und auferstehende Gottheiland in den orientalischen Religionen und ihr Verhältnis zum Christentum. Religionsgesch. Volksbücher,” 1908.
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Ch. ii. 12–20.
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Ch. iii. 1–8.
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Ch. v. 3–5.
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Ch. xii.
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“Zum religionsgesch. Verst. d. N.T.,” 54.
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“L’origine de tous les cultes,” 1795, v. 133.
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“Abraxas,” 117.
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Cf. regarding the mythical nature of Moses, who is to be looked upon as an offshoot of Jahwe and Tammuz, Winckler,
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Cf. also O. Pfleiderer, “Das Christusbild des urchristlichen Glaubens in religionsgesch. Beleuchtung,” 1903, 37. Also Jeremias, “Das A.T. im Lichte