A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Vol. 4 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; And to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity

by Jacob Bryant

Excerpt from A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Vol. 4 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; And to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity

IN the Mosaic history we have an account of the antediluvian world being destroyed by a de luge, the family of one man excepted, which was.

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488 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Jacob Bryant (1715 – 1804) was a British scholar and mythographer, who has been described as "the outstanding figure among the mythagogoues who flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries".