2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/15/2019 | 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Plutarch's Silence on Monotheism | Hampton Inn Conference Room
Plutarch's Silence on Monotheism
Plutarch's Silence on Monotheism
Plutarch devotes one of his two Jewish questions in his Table-Talks to the God of the Jews. The discussion is very well informed, depending as it does on Hecataeus of Abdera, and is mainly devoted to Jewish ritual, arguing that its similarities prove the identity of the God of the Jews with Dionysus. Though interpretatio Graeca is a well-known phenomenon, Plutarch's approach here is quite astonishing. Despite his involvement and deep interest in religion, including foreign (e.g. Egyptian) religions he entirely disregards what is considered by moderns as Judaism's most prominent feature contrasting it with 'pagan' antiquity, monotheism – as he was also totally ignoring the young and rising Christianity. This paper will try to provide the background to this strange silence.
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Joseph Geiger
(), msgeiger@mail.huji.ac.il;
My int4rrest in Putarch dates from my Oxford DPhil (1971) and has continued ever since. One of my other main interests is the history of the Jews in the Roman Empire
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