A Jewish website offers this curious qualification. What's the background on the "Temple of Osiris" claim?
http://archive.diarna.org/site/detail/public/96/
"Great Synagogue (Temple of Osiris) at Tunis, Tunisia"
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Re: "Great Synagogue (Temple of Osiris) at Tunis, Tunisia"
"French philanthropist Daniel Osiris agreed to endow the construction."
Re: "Great Synagogue (Temple of Osiris) ...
That's hilarious, what a coincidence.
Some Egyptians (c.35 BC - 40 AD?) theologized {θεολογοῦσιν} that Iao (or YHWH?) was Osiris, after Hermes' declaration. I am curious where/how that might be evidenced/elaborated in any N.African synagogues, given:
a) The Jewish Therapeutae, reportedly resident very near Taposiris, w/ a major Temple of Osiris.
b) Alexandrian Jews' folkore re: the Gardens of Adonis/Osiris.
c) Pagan religious artifacts found with Jewish objects, at suspect synagogue sites.
d) Other references (whatever I have missed, etc.)
Regarding the god of the Jews, Lydus relates:
There has been and still is much disagreement among the theologians regarding the god who is worshiped by the Hebrews. For the Egyptians — and Hermes [Trismegistus] first of all — theologize that he is Osiris, “the one who exists,”...
There has been and still is much disagreement among the theologians regarding the god who is worshiped by the Hebrews. For the Egyptians — and Hermes [Trismegistus] first of all — theologize that he is Osiris, “the one who exists,”...
Some Egyptians (c.35 BC - 40 AD?) theologized {θεολογοῦσιν} that Iao (or YHWH?) was Osiris, after Hermes' declaration. I am curious where/how that might be evidenced/elaborated in any N.African synagogues, given:
a) The Jewish Therapeutae, reportedly resident very near Taposiris, w/ a major Temple of Osiris.
b) Alexandrian Jews' folkore re: the Gardens of Adonis/Osiris.
c) Pagan religious artifacts found with Jewish objects, at suspect synagogue sites.
d) Other references (whatever I have missed, etc.)