Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes (Brill's Plutarch Studies, 6)

Book info: Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes (Brill's Plutarch Studies, 6) (Hardcover, 408 pages) – Brill, 2020. Language: English.

A Platonist philosopher and priest of Apollo at Delphi, Plutarch (ca. 45-120 CE) covers in his vast oeuvre of miscellaneous writings and biographies of great men virtually every aspect of ancient religion, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Egyptian, Persian. This collection of essays takes the reader on a hike through Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offering as a compass the philosopher’s considerations on issues of philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and life after death. Plutarch provides a unique vantage point to reconstruct and understand many of the interesting developments that were taking in the philosophical and religious world of the first centuries CE. Editorial Reviews About the Author Rainer Hirsch-Luipold is Professor of New Testament and History of Ancient Religions, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern and Extraordinary Professor, University of Stellenbosch (SA), Department of Ancient Studies. He has published extensively on Plutarch’s religious philosophy and his use of imagery as well as the religious philosophical literature in Early Imperial times more broadly.
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and is currently the Director of the Koninklijk Nederlands Institute of Rome. He has published extensively on Plutarch, Early Christian apocrypha and Gnosticism.