Subject: Re: Andrew Welburn's scholarship
From: Dierk van den Berg (haGalil@gmx.net)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 20:03:50 EDT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Horace Jeffery Hodges" <jefferyhodges@yahoo.com> To: "First Century Judaism Discussion Forum" <ioudaios-l@Lehigh.EDU> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 12:26 AM Subject: IOU: Andrew Welburn's scholarship > I haven't read the book, but when I was at Hanshin > University, I ordered it for their theology library to > see what it had to offer. > > I didn't get the chance to read it before leaving for > my Korea University position, but I looked at it > briefly and decided that it was a scholarly attempt by > a literature professor who was presenting outdated > views. > > I can't recall clearly if he cited David Ulansey's > Mithraic Mysteries, but if he didn't, then he's far > behind the scholarship on Mithraism. > > Jeffery Hodges > Jeffery, What about Manfred Clauss_The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries_Routledge 2001 ? Different to Ulansey, Clauss handles Tarsos with much more caution concerning Plutarch's reference to Cilician pirates (allied with Mithradates of Pontus) in Vit.Pomp 24.5, pointing merely to coins of the mid 3rd c CE (!) dedicated to Mithras. A progress in research or a 'back to the future'? _Dierk
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