Serapis
deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Joseph
spoken of as
1 expressionJoseph“Serapis”1 mention
Ad Nationes (Latin)
For that Serapis was once called Joseph, of the race of the holy ones.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Egyptian-Greek syncretic deity cited as a test case for extending divinity to foreign gods
And what do you say — if those whom we worship and have received are gods, why should we not reckon Serapis and Isis in the same kind?
Ad Nationes
Biblical Joseph, identified by Tertullian as the historical figure later worshipped as the god Serapis.
For that Serapis was once called Joseph, of the race of the holy ones.
Apologeticum
Egyptian deity expelled from the Capitol by the consuls, later restored with high honors.
Serapis and Isis and Harpocrates, with their dog-headed companion, when they were forbidden to be brought into the Capitol — that is, were expelled from the assembly of the gods — Piso and Gabinius the consuls, not surely Christians, did away with, even overthrowing their altars, thereby restraining the vices of base and idle superstitions.
The very thing which you seem most faithfully to maintain as handed down from your fathers — the thing in which you have chiefly marked out Christians as transgressors, I mean the zeal for worshipping the gods, wherein antiquity most of all went astray — even though you have now rebuilt altars to a Serapis become Roman, even though you now offer your frenzies to a Bacchus become Italian, I will sh …
De idolatria
Greco-Egyptian deity whose image is cited as an example of comparatively infrequent idol-craft demand.
Mercury and Serapis not daily.