From the Stoneage to Christianity Author:William Foxwell Albright Dr. Albright has recreated the turbulent history of man in the Fertile Crescent, from his first appearance in the Old Stone Age until the Christian era, centering attention upon monotheistic religion as the uniquely significant feature of human civilization and the historical process. He traces the beginnings of monotheism to the cosmic mytholo... more »gy and high gods of Babylonia and Egypt, and its emergence in history to solar theism of Akhenaten. He finds its classic expression in the misistry of Moses and the utterances of the great prophets of the Old Testament, its culmination in the career of Jesus Christ.
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