Volume 2, Number 2 · March 5, 1964

Christian Beginnings

By M.I. Finley
Greek Myths and Christian Mystery
by Hugo Rahner, by S.J., translated by Brian Batteshaw

Harper & Row, 399 pp., $10.00

Who came first, Homer or Moses? That question was vigorously debated between Christian and pagan apologists in the last centuries of antiquity, and often it was turned into a blunter question, Who plagiarized from whom? As an anonymous writer of about the year 200 phrased it,



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