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SHORT NOTICES S H O R T NOTICES name one? He also says that ‘to some extent the Gnostic redeemer is foreshadowed in the mysterious Teacher of Righteousness of the Dead Sea Scrolls’. The Teacher was less mysterious than his nearest counterpart, an Old Testament prophet. The suggestion that he had some traits of a Gnostic redeemer is baffling. Finally, Greek dualism had more influence on Gnosticism than Professor Grant allows. K. S. Early Christian Prayers. Edited by A. HAMMAN, O.F.M. Translated by WALTER MITCHELL. xiii, 320, Chicago: Henry Regnery Co.; London: Longmans, Pp. Green & Co., 1961, 35s. The indifferent quality so often met in translations heightens the pleasure afforded by the excellence of that given in this book. The translator has kept his linguistic independence. He has rethought the meaning and reproduced it in English idiom, which is just what a translator should do. One short example may illustrate the method and the skill evident in the pages of this volume. A funeral inscription of the fifth century preserved in the Lateran Museum speaks of the happiness of the innocent in the after-world and ends with the words ‘Comprematur pectorum gemitus ; statuatur (struatur) fletus oculorum’. The French http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

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The Heythrop Journal , Volume 3 (1) – Jan 1, 1962
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Copyright © 1962 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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10.1111/j.1468-2265.1962.tb00282.x
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S H O R T NOTICES name one? He also says that ‘to some extent the Gnostic redeemer is foreshadowed in the mysterious Teacher of Righteousness of the Dead Sea Scrolls’. The Teacher was less mysterious than his nearest counterpart, an Old Testament prophet. The suggestion that he had some traits of a Gnostic redeemer is baffling. Finally, Greek dualism had more influence on Gnosticism than Professor Grant allows. K. S. Early Christian Prayers. Edited by A. HAMMAN, O.F.M. Translated by WALTER MITCHELL. xiii, 320, Chicago: Henry Regnery Co.; London: Longmans, Pp. Green & Co., 1961, 35s. The indifferent quality so often met in translations heightens the pleasure afforded by the excellence of that given in this book. The translator has kept his linguistic independence. He has rethought the meaning and reproduced it in English idiom, which is just what a translator should do. One short example may illustrate the method and the skill evident in the pages of this volume. A funeral inscription of the fifth century preserved in the Lateran Museum speaks of the happiness of the innocent in the after-world and ends with the words ‘Comprematur pectorum gemitus ; statuatur (struatur) fletus oculorum’. The French

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