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The "Mithras Liturgy"
Hans Dieter Betz
其他書名
Text, Translation, and Commentary
出版Mohr Siebeck, 2003
主題Literary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalReligion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New TestamentReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN31614812839783161481284
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XkdxQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.