Oxford Oxford University Press 2006 4th printing Hardcover Good+ No Jacket Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. xvi, 285pp. Ex-library. Sticker to lower spine has cleaned up nicely, leaving minor, faint discoloration to area where a sticker used to be. Remnant of sticker to back cover; else, cloth is clean and bright. No writing to text. Binding sound. Overall, a nice, clean, sound copy.

ISBN10: 0198140894, ISBN13: 9780198140894, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover xvi, 285pp. Ex-library. Sticker to lower spine has cleaned up nicely, leaving minor, faint discoloration to area where a sticker used to be. Remnant of sticker to back cover; else, cloth is clean and bright. No writing to text. Binding sound. Overall, a nice, clean, sound copy
[Stillwater, MN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 0198140894, ISBN13: 9780198140894, [publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press] Hardcover XIII, 285 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: 1. Introduction to Interpreting the Mysteries: Old Ways, New Ways -- 2. Old Ways: The Reconstruction of Mithraic Doctrine from Iconography -- 3. The Problem of Referents: Interpretation with Reference to What? -- 4. Doctrine Redefined -- 5. The Mithraic Mysteries as Symbol System: I. Introduction and Comparisons -- 6. Cognition and Representation -- 7. The Mithraic Mysteries as Symbol System: II. The Mithraeum -- 8. Star-Talk: The Symbols of the Mithraic Mysteries as Language Signs -- 9. The Mithraic Mysteries as Symbol System: III. The Tauroctony -- 10. Excursus: the esoteric quartering, a lost helicoidal model of lunar motion, and the origin of the 'winds' and 'steps' of the Moon. The identity of 'Antiochus the Athenian'. - As the capstone of thirty years of research and publication on the cult and its religion, Roger Beck puts forward a radically new description of the ‘Mysteries of Mithras’. The Mysteries are presented from, the perspective of the initiate as a complex system of symbols created, apprehended, and trahsinitted not only in the extraordinarily rich and detailed ...
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ISBN10: 0198140894, ISBN13: 9780198140894, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2006 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Unspecified.

Oxford University Press, USA 3/9/2006 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.

Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2006 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Unspecified.

Oxford Oxford University Press 2006 Hardcover Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Front endpaper and fore-edge text block stained. Ink and blind stamp in front endpaper. Jacket shelfwear, tears in spine ends. 9780198140894. 8vo; 285 pages.