Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras by Alvar, Jaime

Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004464186)

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Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras by Alvar, Jaime

Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras

$74.00
Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras by Alvar, Jaime

Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras

$74.00
Format: Paperback
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The relative sophistication of the three major 'Oriental cults' of the Roman Empire, combining unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual, enabled them, like Early Christianity, to offer a properly ethical salvation in the Weberian sense.

Author: Jaime Alvar
ISBN-10: 9004464182
ISBN-13: 9789004464186
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2021
Pages: 508
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d
By Jaime Alvar
By Jaime Alvar
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Jaime Alvar, Ph.D. (1980) in Ancient History, Complutense University, is Professor of Ancient History at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has published extensively on Iberian protohistory and Graeco-Roman religions, and is currently director of the Instituto de Historiografia "Julio Caro Baroja"
Translator and editor: Richard Gordon, Ph.D. (1973), Cambridge UK, is honorary professor of Religionsgeschichte der Antike at the University of Erfurt, Thüringen. He has published mainly on religious currents in the Roman Empire and Graeco-Roman magic.

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