Hans Dieter Betz
The »Mithras Liturgy«
Text, Translation, and Commentary
[Die »Mithrasliturgie«. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar.]
2003; unrevised student edition; 2005. XVIII, 274 pages. Summary
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Hans Dieter Betz has done a translation of and a commentary on a fascinating papyrus text from late antiquity. The so-called »Mithras Liturgy« is an esoteric magic ritual of ascension, written from the inner perspective of an initiated practitioner and showing a syncretistic form of late Egyptian religion, influenced also by Hellenistic philosophy of religion.