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040 _cSt. Andrew's Theological Seminary
050 _aBL 722
_b.M37
100 1 0 _aLuther, Martin H.,
_d1937--
245 1 0 _aHellenistic religions :
_ban introduction /
_cLuther, Martin H.
260 0 _aNew York, Oxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc1987.
300 _axv, 170 p.;
_c20 cm.
504 _aBibliography: p. 130-133 Includes index
505 _aContents:
505 _aAbbreviations of classical sources cited--Introduction --The Hellenistic age --The Hellenistic world --Religion in the Hellenistic world--Syncretism or system --Piety, mystery, gnosis --1. The golden ass in a labryrinthian world --The fictive world of Apuleius --The cosmic world of Apuleius--The mythic world of Apuleius --Fortune --Wandering --Salvation --The social world of apuleius --Home --Magic --The world of Lucius --2. Hellenistic piety --Traditional piety --Hellenistic philosophy and the rational order of things --Philosophy in the Hellenistic world --The epicureans --The stoics --Philosophy and piety --Divination and the cosmic order of things --Artificial divination --Astrology --Alchemy --Natural divination --The delphic oracle --Dreaming--Asclepius and healing --Specialization and senility. 3. The mysteries and the sovereignty of the feminine --Mystery deities --The mysteries--The Eleusinian mysteries --The myth of Demeter --The rights of Demeter --The mystery initiation --Eleusis and Athens --The Mysteries of Isis --The myth of Isis and Osiris --The rites of Isis --
505 _ The mysteries of Isis --The universal goddess --The Syrian goddess --The great mother of the gods. 4. Reformation and innovations --Reformations --Dionysus --The myth of Dionysus --The mysteries of Dionysus --The orgies of the Roman Bacchanalia --Orpheus --The Orphic myth of Dionysus --Orphic Mysteries --Judaism --Hellenistic Judaism --Yahweh and the Feminine --Innovations --Alexander of Abonoteichus --Mithraism --The origin of Mithraism --The myth of Mithras --Mithraic initiation --Mithraic initiation --Christianity --They Christ myth --Appeal and reaction --5. Late Hellenistic gnosis --Cosmic revaluation --Gnosticism --Christian and non-christian gnosis --Gnostic seeking --Gnostic cult --Manichaeism --The hermetic tradition --The patria.
000 usinian mysteries --The myth of Demeter --The rights of Demeter --The mystery initiation --Eleusis and Athens --The Mysteries of Isis --The myth of Isis and Osiris --The rites of Isis --The mysteries of Isis --The universal goddess --The Syrian goddess --The great mother of the gods. 4. Reformation and innovations --Reformations--Dionysus --The myth of Dionysus --The mysteries of Dionysus --The orgies of the Roman Bacchanalia--Orpheus --The Orphic myth of Dionysus --Orphic Mysteries --Judaism --Hellenistic Judaism --Yahweh and the Feminine --Innovations --Alexander of Abonoteichus --Mithraism --The origin of Mithraism--The myth of Mithras --Mithraic initiation --Mithraic initiation --Christianity --They Christ myth --Appeal and reaction --5. Late Hellenistic gnosis --Cosmic revaluation --Gnosticism --Christian and non-christian gnosis --Gnostic seeking --Gnostic cult --Manichaeism --The hermetic tradition --The patria.
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