Traditional Religious Cultures and the Christian Response — I

W. Cantwell Smith , The Meaning and End of Religion, quoted here from Man's Religious Quest, ed. Whitfield Foy ( The Open University Press [1978] pp. 49-50).

This brief outline can be supplemented and documented by reference to Martin Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism (SCM [1974]); A. H. M. Jones, The Greek City (Oxford [1940]); Moses Hadas, Hellenistic Culture (Oxford [1959]); and Emil Schürer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, new ed. by Vermes, Millar and Black (Edinburgh [1979]), Vol. II. 29ff.

Text: A.S. Pease , M. Tulli Ciceronis De Natura Deorum (Cambridge, Mass. [1955-58]). An English translation is available in Penguin Classics.

Plutarch's works are voluminous, but his Moralia which are significant for this discussion, will be found in the Loeb Classical Library, ed. F. C. Babbitt. An English translation entitled Moral Essays is also available in Penguin Classics, but it is simply a selection and the only treatise included to which reference is made here is 'The Decline of the Oracles'.