DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTHICAL POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE GOSPEL HISTORIES.

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§ 1. [Inevitable rise of different modes of explaining sacred histories] 39
2. [Different explanations of sacred legends among the Greeks] 40
3. [Allegorical interpretations among the Hebrews. Philo] 41
4. [Allegorical interpretations among the Christians. Origen] 41
5. [Transition to more modern times. Deists and Naturalists of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Wolfenbüttel Fragmentist] 44
6. [Natural mode of explanation adopted by the Rationalists. Eichhorn. Paulus] 46
7. [Moral interpretation of Kant] 50
8. [Rise of the mythical mode of interpreting the sacred history, in reference first to the Old Testament] 52
9. [The mythical mode of interpretation in reference to the New Testament] 57
10. [The notion of the mythus in its application to sacred histories not clearly apprehended by theologians] 59
11. [The application of the notion of the mythus too circumscribed] 63
12. [Opposition to the mythical view of the Gospel history] 65
13. [The possibility of the existence of mythi in the New Testament considered in reference to external evidences] 69
14. [The possibility of mythi in the New Testament considered on internal grounds] 75
15. [Definition of the evangelical mythus, and its distinctive characteristics] 86
16. [Criteria by which to distinguish the unhistorical in the Gospel narrative] 87

FIRST PART.

HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.

CHAPTER I.

ANNUNCIATION AND BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.

§ 17. [Account given by Luke. Immediate supernatural character of the representation] 95
18. [Natural explanation of the narrative] 100
19. [Mythical view of the narrative in its different stages] 104

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CHAPTER II.