8 This has been clearly shown by Wendland in connection with the idea of
the [Greek: sôtêria], _Zeitschrift für neutest. Wiss._, V, 1904, pp. 355
ff. More recently he has thrown light on the general influence of
Hellenistic civilization on Christianity (_Die hellenistisch-römische
Kultur in ihren Beziehungen zum Judentum und Christentum_, Tübingen, 1908).
A first attempt to determine the character of Hellenistic mysteries is to
be found in Reitzenstein's _Hellenistische Mysterienreligion_, 1910.