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Title: Introduction to the History of Religions
Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

Author: Crawford Howell Toy

Editor: Morris Jastrow

Release Date: January 18, 2009 [EBook #27829]

Language: English

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HANDBOOKS
ON THE
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

EDITED BY

MORRIS JASTROW, JR., PH.D.

_Late Professor of Semitic Languages in the_
_University of Pennsylvania_

VOLUME IV

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Handbooks on the History of Religions

INTRODUCTION TO THE
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

BY
CRAWFORD HOWELL TOY
LATE PROFESSOR IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1924

COPYRIGHT, 1913

BY CRAWFORD HOWELL TOY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Third Impression_

PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A.

PREFACE

The object of this volum