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iiiFORERUNNERS AND RIVALS OF CHRISTIANITY

BEING

STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY

FROM 330 B.C. TO 330 A.D.

BY

F. LEGGE, F.S.A.

(Honorary) Foreign Secretary Society of Biblical Archaeology,

Member of Council Royal Asiatic Society,

Member of Committee Egypt Exploration Fund, &c.

“The ghosts of words and dusty dreams”

“Old memories, faiths infirm and dead”

Swinburne, Félise.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1915

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