My source for the later dating comes from Lee Strobel's book: 'The Case for the Real Jesus'. He interviews an Edwin M. Yamauchi, PH.D whose credentials I'll not bother to type up but are long and impressive. I will say he has 'delivered eighty-eight papers on Mithraism'. 'Award-winning historian Paul Maier said Yamauchi wields ''crystal logic and hard, potent evidence,'' adding: No one in the academic world today can better sniff out sensationalism in place of sense, excesses beyond the evidence, and speculation instead of scholarship. Whatever historical or theological fad might come along- and so many have!- one brilliant article by Yamauchi supplies the evidence to skewer any bloated pretensions against the cause of truth.'
Yamauchi says: 'Mithraism was a late Roman mystery religion....which became a chief rival to Christianity in the second century and later.' It's an interesting chapter and I will check all this properly once I have time.
Yamauchi says: 'Mithraism was a late Roman mystery religion....which became a chief rival to Christianity in the second century and later.' It's an interesting chapter and I will check all this properly once I have time.
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
