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Comparative Religion
Historical Christian comparative-religion works preserved as arguments in the history of scholarship, with their methods and period limits made explicit.
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Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions — T. W. DoaneT. W. Doane's complete historical comparison of biblical narratives with other religious traditions, framed against obsolete parallelomania.Self-Contradictions of the Bible — William Henry BurrWilliam Henry Burr's 1860 catalogue of paired biblical passages arranged to display apparent contradictions, grouped by theological, moral, historical, and speculative topic.The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ — Nicolas NotovitchNicolas Notovitch's 1890 account of a Tibetan Buddhist manuscript he said he found describing the travels and teaching of a young 'Saint Issa' in India during Jesus's unrecorded years, a claim rejected by every scholar who has investigated it.The Woman's Bible — Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of collaborators publish a verse-by-verse feminist commentary on every biblical passage concerning women, in two parts (1895 and 1898).The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors — Kersey GravesKersey Graves's 1875 comparative-mythology argument that the Christian narrative of a crucified, resurrected savior echoes older stories told of sixteen other legendary and religious figures.