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Mithras Liturgy Text, Translation, & Commentary

Mithras Liturgy Text, Translation, & Commentary
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  • ISBN-13: 9783161481284
  • ISBN: 3161481283
  • Publication Date: 2003
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG

AUTHOR

Betz, Hans Dieter

SUMMARY

"The author 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 A.D., 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 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."Betz, Hans Dieter is the author of 'Mithras Liturgy Text, Translation, & Commentary', published 2003 under ISBN 9783161481284 and ISBN 3161481283.

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