| The Mithras Liturgy: Text, Translation, and Commentary Contributor(s): Betz, Hans D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3161481283 ISBN-13: 9783161481284 Publisher: Mohr Siebeck OUR PRICE: $106.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament - Religion | Christianity - History |
| LCCN: 2003502821 |
| Series: Studien Und Texte Zu Antike Und Christentum / Studies And Te |
| Physical Information: 274 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hans Dieter Betz provides the first complete English commentary on one of the most important texts of the history of religions in late antiquity: the so-called Mithras Liturgy, a magic Graeco-Egyptian papyrus from the 4th century AD, written from the inner perspective by an initiated devotee of the god Helios-Mithras-Aion and containing an esoteric ritual instruction for an ascension to and consultation with the god. In addition to an introduction into the history of research since Albrecht Dieterich's famous work Eine Mithraslithurgie (1903), the volume contains the Greek text and the English translation, an analysis of the literary composition, and a commentary establishing the text and contextualizing it in relation to Egyptian religion, Mithraism, hermeticism and gnosticism. At the end of the book there is a bibliography and a Greek word-index. |