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Philo of Alexandria and the Pythagorean texts of the Hellenistic period
Schole Ancient philosophy and the classical traditionClement of Alexandria twice refers to Philo as a ‘Pythagorean.’ Obviously, this is how the early Christian writer imagined the Jewish exegete, famous for his allegorical interpretations of the Old Testament, characterized by numerical symbolism. However,
Eugene Afonasin
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Ecstasy and Exodus in the Interpretation of Philo of Alexandria and Lev Shestov
ISTORIYA, 2022The biblical tradition of Exodus and the philosophical tradition of ecstasy seem both incompatible and identical. The Greek “ecstasy” (ἔκστασις — “going out of oneself”) suggests possession, sacred madness, poetic or philosophical inspiration.
A. Kovelman
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Philo of Alexandria on the eternity of the world (De aeternitate mundi, 1–19)
Schole Ancient philosophy and the classical traditionPhilo remains not only a key figure in the history of the interpretation of the biblical books, but also a crucial witness to the development of Platonism in the first century BCE.
Eugene Afonasin
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Philo of Alexandria on the eternity of the world (De aeternitate mundi, 20–73)
Schole Ancient philosophy and the classical traditionIn the treatise ‘On the Eternity of the World’, translated below, Philo appears not only as a key figure in the history of the interpretation of the biblical books, but also as a crucial witness to the development of Platonism in the first century BCE ...
Eugene Afonasin
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Classical Quarterly
One of the tendencies among scribes who transmitted the corpus Philonicum was to divide treatises into smaller units. This article argues that Philo’s De gigantibus and Quod Deus sit immutabilis were originally a single treatise that scribes split in an ...
Gregory E. Sterling
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One of the tendencies among scribes who transmitted the corpus Philonicum was to divide treatises into smaller units. This article argues that Philo’s De gigantibus and Quod Deus sit immutabilis were originally a single treatise that scribes split in an ...
Gregory E. Sterling
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Prophecy in Plutarch and Philo of Alexandria
Journal for the Study of JudaismDavid Winston distinguishes two types of Mosaic prophecy in Philo’s De vita Mosis, noetic and ecstatic. Noetic prophecy, which corresponds to Moses’s delivery of the special laws, is active and rational.
Matthew J. Klem
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2009
Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 bce–c. 50 ce) was the most prolific commentator on the Pentateuch in the Second Temple Jewish period (539 bce–70/135 ce). Philo was a member of a prominent Jewish family in one of the largest Jewish communities in the early Roman world.
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Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 bce–c. 50 ce) was the most prolific commentator on the Pentateuch in the Second Temple Jewish period (539 bce–70/135 ce). Philo was a member of a prominent Jewish family in one of the largest Jewish communities in the early Roman world.
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1999
Of all the Jews who have written in Greek, Philo of Alexandria is undoubtedly the greatest on account of the breadth and richness of his ideas, the number of his works and his brilliant literary qualities. No other author in antiquity has attempted with so much boldness the confrontation and symbiosis of Judaism with another philosophy and another ...
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Of all the Jews who have written in Greek, Philo of Alexandria is undoubtedly the greatest on account of the breadth and richness of his ideas, the number of his works and his brilliant literary qualities. No other author in antiquity has attempted with so much boldness the confrontation and symbiosis of Judaism with another philosophy and another ...
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1981
This anthology contains the basic vision of Philo (c. 20 B.C.E.-50 C.E.), the greatest Jewish mystic, philosopher, and theologian of the Graeco-Roman era.
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This anthology contains the basic vision of Philo (c. 20 B.C.E.-50 C.E.), the greatest Jewish mystic, philosopher, and theologian of the Graeco-Roman era.
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