Harper's Library of Living Thought 



By Prof. W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE 



PERSONAL 



RELIGION IN EGYPT 



BEFORE CHRISTIANITY 



" The author gauges what ideas were already 

 part of the religious thought in the first century, 

 and what were the terms and ideas in Christi- 

 anity which were new to mankind. The current 

 literature of the time was as naturally taken for 

 granted by Christians as were the books of the 

 Old Testament which were familiar to them. 

 The separation of the new ideas in the teaching 

 of Christ and of the Apostles from the general 

 terms of religion at the time, is the only road 

 to understanding what Christianity meant to 

 those who actually heard the teaching." 



JYotts Guardian. 



"A suggestive and thought-provoking book, a real 

 contribution to the study of comparative religion." 



Methodist Recorder. 



