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Hellenistic Mystery-Religions - Their Basic Ideas and Significance (Paperback)
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Hellenistic Mystery-Religions - Their Basic Ideas and Significance (Paperback)
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At the turn of the twentieth century, a group of famed scholars at
the University of GAttingen founded a movement that came to be
known as the "History of Religions School." In their approach to
Christian origins and early Christian belief about Jesus they
emphasized the degree to which Christianity was a product of its
time. Christians borrowed and adapted ideas already in wide
circulation to craft their claims about Christ. In his now classic
Hellenistic Mystery-Religions (first published in 1910), Richard
Reitzenstein seeks to establish the direct dependence of early
Christianity on Hellenistic, Mandaean, and Iranian mythology and
ritual. While written before the discoveries of Qumran and Nag
Hammadi, Reitzenstein's knowledge of ancient texts still warrants
careful reading. Even if one rejects his claim that the Apostle
Paul was "the greatest of all Gnostics," Reitzenstein's rigorous
attempt to root Christianity in its historical context and
demonstrate the genetic development of religious belief and
practice merits both commendation and careful attention.
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