Author: Charles Duke Philo
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 1565638093
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 945

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Foreword by David M. Scholer is dated May 2008.

Author: Philo
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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An ancient Roman history text, translated by Charles Yonge, and written by the Greek philosopher Philo of Alexandria. The Embassy to Gaius was a meeting between Gaius Caligula, the then Roman Emperor, and a large contingent of Jews. They wished to overturn Gaius' plans to have a huge statue of Zeus installed in the temple. Gaius' hatred of the Jews is legendary. This book is important because it helps to understand the relations between Jews and Romans in the first century A.D.

Author: Philo of Philo of Alexandria
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977515865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Philo of Alexandria), also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. Philo used philosophical allegory to harmonize Jewish scripture, mainly the Torah, with Greek philosophy. His method followed the practices of both Jewish exegesis and Stoic philosophy. His allegorical exegesis was important for several Christian Church Fathers, but he has barely any reception history within Rabbinic Judaism. He believed that literal interpretations of the Hebrew Bible would stifle humanity's perception of a God too complex and marvelous to be understood in literal human terms. Some scholars hold that his concept of the Logos as God's creative principle influenced early Christology. Other scholars deny direct influence but say that Philo and Early Christianity borrow from a common source. The only event in Philo's life that can be decisively dated is his participation in the embassy to Rome in 40 CE. He represented the Alexandrian Jews in a delegation to Roman Emperor Caligula following civil strife between the Alexandrian Jewish and Greek communities. The story of this event, and a few other biographical details, are found in Josephus and in Philo's own works, especially in Legatio ad Gaium (Embassy to Gaius) of which only two of the original five volumes survive. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Author: Norman Bentwich
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Harry Austryn Wolfson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Dorothy Sly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930675988
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Philo was a Greek-educated but observant Jew who lived during the time of Jesus and Paul. According to the author, Philo's writings synthesized earlier Greek and Jewish perceptions of women. Although Philo accepts the female as good because created by God, Sly argues that Philo nevertheless saw women as necessarily subservient and under the control of men. Thus his writings express some of the earliest sources for repressive attitudes towards women, and suggest that similar attitudes exhibited by the church fathers may be traced through Philo to earlier traditions.

Author: Norman Bentwich
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Philo (of Alexandria.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Samuel Sandmel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Samuel Sandmel's book: Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction, is a basic introductory, supplementing his own teacher' Goodenough: 'An Introduction to Philo Judaeus, ' and foundation to more recent works on Philo.

Author: Franck Salameh
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319996673
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.