The "Mithras liturgy"
text, translation, and commentary
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Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18657907M
- ISBN-103161481283
- OCLC Control Number52944290
- Library of Congress Control Number2003502821
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- LibraryThing417465
Classifications
- LCCBL1585 .B475 2003
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 4[superscript th] century A.D., written from the inner perspective by an initiated devotee of the god Helios-Mithras-Alon 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 Mithrasliturgie" (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."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
- Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 18
Other Editions
- The "Mithras liturgy"
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