10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MITHRAISTIC»
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A. Mithraistic. Poet. lion in the Numidian deserts, so is the bull the absolute ruler
of the lowlands of Andalusia, near the vanished Tartessus, whose spiritual
essence revitalizes the Andalusian soul century after century, no matter what
external ...
He is supplied with arms which symbolize the religious virtues and we notice the
old Mazdean dualism throughout, but St. Paul uses the same simile in his
epistles, and St. Paul is older than the Mithraistic religion as it was worked out in
the ...
2 The name Izdubar recalls the nature of Mithras, who in the later development of
Mazdaism plays approximately the part of Christ in Christianity. Mithras means "
Splendor," and many mythological features of Mithraistic traditions indicate that ...
Edward C. Hegeler, Paul Carus, 1966
4
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
Mithraism was especially important (though not exclusively so) among the
centurions, that is the subaltern officers who had a claim upon governmental
pensions. The genuinely ethical requirements of the Mithraistic mysteries were,
however, ...
Max Weber, Guenther Roth, Claus Wittich, 1978
5
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New ...
While accepting that our fragment is related to the grace after meals, he suggests
tentatively that "this may be an anti-Mithraistic polemical 'blessing' condemning
taurobolium."39 This is apparently based on the fact that a mithraeum is close by
...
6
A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part 1: The Parthian Period
... man to eat of... Carcasses innumerable of. .. blessing them all, cattle...” That
this may be an anti-Mithraistic polemical “blessing,” condemning the tauroStudia
Post~Biblica IX 12 There is more convincing evidence, however, of the existence
of.
7
ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS: Pathways to Dialogue
... the time of Jesus a legend had somehow grown up (possibly under the then-
powerful influence of Mithraistic beliefs) to the effect that he had died on the cross
in order to atone for the 'original sin' with which mankind is allegedly burdened.
8
Constantine the Great and the Christian Revolution
See the full description in Sir Samuel Dill's Roman Society in the Last Century of
the Western Empire, p. 80 et seq. . . . There are many unlikelier things than that
Constantius himself attended the Mithraistic “Cave” at York. Sunworship 1 Raine
...
George Philip Baker, 2001
9
Papers on the Date of Kaniṣka: Submitted to the Conference ...
Humbach cannot have been prejudiced in this matter, because he takes the
general bearing and tone of the inscription as neo-Mithraistic Iranian, and never
once refers to Indra or the Vedas. The epigraph as it stands cannot be reconciled
to ...
Arthur Llewellyn Basham, 1969
10
The Crucifixion: John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ
... 72-4,77,78,85,99,101,116, 122-4 Jesus possessed by, 117 messiahs potential
challenge to establishment and Rome, 124 Messianic speculations, 100 Mishnah
, 100 mistaken identity, 2, 7, 70, 73, 75, 80,85 Mithraistic beliefs, 3 monasticism, ...
