The Sources of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin

Table of Contents

1. The Fall-story and its exegesis
2. The ethnological origin and relations of the Fall story
3. The psychological origin of the Fall-story: its relation to history, allegory and myth
4. The preparation in the Old Testament for a doctrine of the fall and Original Sin
5. The teaching of Ecclesiasticus on sin and the Fall
6. The preparation for the doctrine of the Fall in Alexandrian Judaism
7. The Fall and Original Sin in Rabbinical literature
8. The Fall and Original Sin in Jewish pseudopigraphic literature
9. The Fall and Original Sin in Jewish pseudopigraphic literature (continued)
10. The growth of the doctrine of the Fall, and of its elements, Jewish literature as a whole
11. S. Paul's doctrine of the Fall
12. The doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin in the fathers before Augustine
13. The doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin in the fathers before Augustine (continued)
Additions and corrections
Index of passages
Index of authors
Index of subjects.

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