Download or read book Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources (Classic Reprint) written by Carl Clemen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources That primitive Christianity is directly or indirectly indebted to non-jewish religions, is a view that was held at a much earlier date than is commonly supposed: it is, in fact, as old as Christianity itself. For Philo, who elsewhere makes the Greeks learn from Moses,1 at one point (vita Mos. I. 5, ed. Mangey, ii. 84) represents Moses as having learned from the Greeks; and this statement, if worked out to its consequences, would mean that Jesus and His disciples were indirectly pupils of the same great teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.