Epicurus was not as bad as he is portrayed
Judaism describes a non-believer in God as an Apicorus, a name most likely derived from the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), as Professor Marcus Jastrow states in his famed Dictionary, although Maimonides in his essay Chelek states it is an Aramaic word. The rabbis thought that Epicurus denied the existence of God and was a [...]