The Myth and Ritual Theory
Subtitle: An Anthology (Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: February 1998
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780631206804
First sentence: The pioneering myth-ritualist was the Scottish biblicist and Arabist William Robertson Smith (1846-94), who begun his career as Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, and ended it as Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University.