The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil AUTH-4303360 and was Upton Lecturer on

and was Upton Lecturer on the Philosophy of Religion at Manchester College

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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil AUTH-4303360 and was Upton Lecturer onDrawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly