Myth, Magic, and Morals: a Study of Christian Origins

by F.C. Conybeare (Creator)

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424 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (1856 - 9 January 1924) was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford.

He took an interest in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an Old Catholic organisation, becoming a Bishop in it in 1894. Also in the 1890s he wrote a book on the Dreyfus case, as a Dreyfusard, and translated the Testament of Solomon and other early Christian texts. As well, he did influential work on Barlaam and Josaphat. He was an authority on the Armenian Church.