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Philo of Alexandria and Platonist Psychology
Études Platoniciennes, 2010 Philo of Alexandria is, as we know, a remarkable literary and intellectual phenomenon. Imbued though he is with Greek culture, both literary and philosophical, Philo also seems to have experienced, at some time in his early manhood, a “conversion” to his ancestral Jewish religion and culture which leaves him determined not to reject the Greek ...
John Dillon
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Religions, 2021 The present article sets out to answer the question of the extent to which Naḥman Krochmal’s reappraisal of Philo of Alexandria in the light of his Jewish faith reflects a deep spiritual crisis that was engulfing the Maskilic world: the encroaching ...
Ze’ev Strauss
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Relationship of Religion and Philosophy in the view of Philo of Alexandria and Abdollah Javadi Amoli [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2020 Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's position in Iran after the revolution is very similar to that of the Jewish Philo in Alexandria in the first century AD; In a way that can and should be the root of many of the great ideas of both philosophers in their social ...
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Proces nawrócenia się Abrahama w interpretacji Filona z Aleksandrii
Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne, 2023 The article aims to present a reinterpretation of the history of Abraham's calling in the treatise of Philo of Alexandria. The text of Genesis (12:1-4) describes the patriarch's immediate reaction to the command to leave Haran. This process began in Ur.
Mateusz Wyrzykowski
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Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 The Epistle to the Hebrews contains one of the most unique Greek lexicology and syntax of all the New Testament writings. Behind syntax, however, there lies a very profound theological vision on topics such as Christ, Temple, holiness, perseverance and ...
Botica Aurelian
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M. R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria. An Intellectual Biography
Reflexe, 2020 Book review: M. R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria. An Intellectual Biography. An Intellectual Biography, New Haven – London (Yale University Press) 2018, 323 p.
Markéta Dudziková
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Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne, 2022 The article aims to present and analyze the reinterpretation of the circumstances of the reconnaissance in Canaan in the texts of De vita Moysis Philo of Alexandria and Antiquitates Judaicae by Joseph Flavius. The text focuses on the theft of fruit from
Mateusz Wyrzykowski
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Reflexe, 2021 Philo of Alexandria provides our first extant testimony of the theory of Forms interpreted as the thoughts of God. Though Philo is probably not the founder of such an interpretation, he employs it when presenting the Pentateuch to his Hellenistic ...
Markéta Dudziková
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Friendship with God as an Ultimate Ideal in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2021 Philo of Alexandria wrote about what it meant to be a ‘friend of God’ in relation to key biblical figures. This article explores to what extent Philo’s understanding of the human relationship to God was inspired by the Greek concept of friendship based ...
Markéta Dudziková
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