Joseph Mazzini Wheeler, sub-editor of the Freethinker and a collaborator of G. W. Foote, who introduces the book, gathers essays reading the Bible through the comparative study of primitive religion. He discusses phallic worship among the Hebrews, circumcision, the strange episode of Moses at the inn, the brazen serpent, taboos, blood rites and scapegoats.
A document of late-Victorian freethought and its polemical use of anthropology, frank in its hostility to religion. Download the free EPUB.