• Foreword by Jean-Pierre Vernant
• Preface
1. Archives of Paradise
2. Divine Vowels Richard Simon, Robert Lowth, J. G. Herder
3. The Cycle of the Chosen Peoples J. G. Herder
4. The Hebrews and the Sublime, Ernest Renan
5. The Danger of Ambiguity Friedrich Max Müller
7. The Monotheism of the Aryas, Adoiphe Pictet
8. Heavenly Nuptials Rudolph Friedrich Grau
9. Semites as Aryans Ignaz Goldziher
10. Secrets of the Forge
• Notes
• Index

Maurice Olender is Maître de Conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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