Review and book note

Irving M. Zeitlin, Ancient Judaism. Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present. Oxford, Polity Press, 1984, pp. Ix + 314. £19.50. Mohan Wijayaratna, Le Moine Bouddhiste selon les textes du Theravǎda. Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 1983, pp. 188. Peter Pfandt, Mahayana Texts Translated into Western Languages. Leiden, Brill, 1983, pp. 167. Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock, Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. vii + 132. James R. Horne, The Moral Mystic (S. R. Supplements, 14). Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983, pp. x + 134. $6.50. Caroline Humphrey, Karl Marx Collective: Economy, society and religion in a Siberian collective farm. Cambridge, C.U.P., 1983, pp. xviii + 552. Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa, Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1984, 195 pp. W. Owen Cole, Sikhism and its Indian Context 1469-1708. The Attitude of Guru Nanak and Early Sikhism to Indian Religious Beliefs and Practices. London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1984, 320 pp. £25.00. Augustine Kanjamala, Religion and Modernization of India: a case study of Northern Orissa, Indore, 1981. pp. 371. Frans L. Damen, Crisis and Religious Renewal in the Brahmo Samaj (1860-1884) : A Documentary Study of the Emergence of the 'New Dispensation' under Keshab Chandra Sen (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 9). Leuven, Department Orientalistiek, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1983.