Subject: [IOU] Re: Andrew Welburn's scholarship
From: Justin Dombrowski (jedombrowski@msn.com)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 22:42:10 EDT
Please remember the [IOU] designator guys--it would be much appreciated. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dierk van den Berg" <haGalil@gmx.net> To: "First Century Judaism Discussion Forum" <ioudaios-l@Lehigh.EDU> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Andrew Welburn's scholarship > > ----- 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 a literature professor who was presenting outdated 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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