Beausobre's _Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manicheisme_, Amsterdam 1734; Baronius' _Annales Ecclesiastici_; Hydes' _Historia Religionis Veterum Persarum_; Rawlinson's _Herodotus_; Lenormant's _The Beginnings of History_; Hardwick's _Christ and other Masters_; Daillé's _Treatise on the Right Use of the Fathers_, London, 1841; _Apollonius de Tyana, sa vie, ses voyages, et ses prodiges_, par Philostrate, Paris, 1862; Sir John Malcolm's _History of Persia_, in 2 vols., London, 1815; Michaelis' _Introduction to the New Testament_, in 4 vols. edited by Dr. Herbert Marsh, London, 1828; Archbishop Wake's _Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers_, London, 1719; Jeremiah Jones' _Canon of the New Testament_, in 3 vols., Oxford, 1793; Milman's _History of Christianity_; Barrow's _Travels in China_, London, 1840; Deane's _Worship of the Serpent_, London, 1883; Baring-Gould's _Lost and Hostile Gospels_, London, 1874; B. F. Westcott's _Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament_, 4th Edit., London, 1875; Mosheim's _Ecclesiastical History_, in 6 vols., Amer. ed. 1810; J. W. Rosses' _Tacitus and Bracciolini_, London, 1878; and the writings of the Christian Fathers, Justin Martyr, St. Clement of Alexandria, Irenæus, Origen, Tertullian and Minucius Felix. BIBLE MYTHS. PART I. THE OLD TESTAMENT. CHAPTER I. THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN. The Old Testament commences with one of its most interesting myths, that of the Creation and Fall of Man. The story is to be found in the first _three_ chapters of Genesis, the substance of which is as follows: After God created the "Heavens" and the "Earth," he said: "Let there be light, and there was light," and after calling the light Day, and the darkness Night, the _first_ day's work was ended. God then made the "Firmament," which completed the _second_ day's work. Then God caused the dry land to appear, which he called "Earth," and the waters he called "Seas." After this the earth was made to bring forth grass, trees, &c., which completed the _third_ day's work. The next things God created were the "Sun,"[1:1] "Moon" and "Stars," and after he had _set them in the Firmament_, the _fourth_ day's work was ended.[2:1] After these, God created great "whales," and other creatures which inhabit the water, also "winged fowls." This brought the _fifth_ day to a close. The work of creation was finally completed on the _sixth_ day,[2:2] when God made "beasts" of every kind, "cattle," "creeping things," and lastly "man," whom he created "male and female," in his own image.[2:3] "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the _seventh_[2:4] day God ended his work which he had made: and he _rested_ on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had _rested_ from all his work which God created and made."