KNOWING GOD BY ANALOGY: PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA AGAINST THE STOIC GOD Theology is undoubtedly one of the most essential constituents of Philo’s thought. For Philo, God is the most perfect being, the one truly existent being,1 and the cause of all that has come into being.2 God’s cent…

Natural Philosophy and Stoicism in Philo’s Oeuvre Gretchen Reydams-Schils In this paper I reexamine the role of the study of nature in Philo’s writings in light of Maren Niehoff’s thesis that the works which he wrote after his embassy to Rome show a markedly more Stoic bent than …

…2012) Printed in Great Britain 242 doi:10.1017/S0009838811000693 SHARON WEISSER PHILO AND CONSOLATORY LITERATURE WHY DOES PHILO CRITICIZE THE STOIC IDEAL OF APATHEIA IN ON ABRAHAM 257? PHILO AND CONSOLATORY LITERATURE 1 Some of Philo’s philosophical inconsistencies are not always…

…................................................................14 Section 1.2: Philo ..................................................................................................................................................25 Section 1.3: Justin, Clement, and Origen ....…

…s in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo of Alexandria, and 3 Maccabees) when remembering and (re)creating accounts of their origins in the diaspora in ways that legitimized life abroad: the use of diaspora-homeland connections and com…

…ocrypha; 4. Pseudepigrapha; Part 2: 5. Dead Sea Scrolls; 6. Individual Authors (Philo, Josephus, Pseudo-Philo, Fragmentary Works); 7. Rabbinic Literature; 8. Other Early Works from the Rabbinic Period; 9. Addenda to Part 1. 5. DEAD SEA SCROLLS While the Dead Sea Scrolls are gener…

…Work: Comprehensive List 12-2015 "Speak, Hannah, and Do Not be Silent": Pseudo- Philo's Deconstruction of Violence in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 50-51 Benjamin J. Lappenga Dordt College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcollections.dordt.edu…

…tual. Through a close reading of four of these sources (the Letter of Aristeas, Philo, the Community Rule, and Josephus), I argue that they might not refer to the practice of the Shema recitation that we know from later rabbinic literature. Rather, they provide us with a lens int…

Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire Edited by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold leiden | boston For use by the Author only | © 2022 Rainer Hirsch-Luipold To two eminent scholars, teachers, and bridg…

… Courtney J. P. Friesen, David Lincicum, David T. Runia, eds., The Reception of Philo of Alexandria (Oxford 2025). Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, and religious thinker. A significant amo... more Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, an…

…n los escritos de Filón de Alejandría* Echoes of Plato's Ion in the writings of Philo of Alexandria Ana Carolina Delgado https://doi.org/10.3989/EMERITA.2016.04.1423 visibility … description 25 pages Sign up for access to the world's latest research check Get notified about relev…

Papers by Francesca Calabi Philo of Alexandria, On the Creation of the Cosmos according to Moses: Introduction, Translation and Commentary Journal of Jewish Studies , Oct 1, 2003 Founded in 1899, The Journal of Theological Studies crosses the entire range of theological resea... …

… his scholarly achievement in the fields of New Testament textual criticism and Philonic studies. An introductory section contains a biographical notice on the honoratus and a complete list of his scholarly publications. Part one contains nine articles on New Testament textual cr…

…re his” (NJPS). For Josephus’ remarks on Aaron, with interspersed references to Philo and rabbinic literature, see Louis H. Feldman, Studies in Josephus’ Rewritten Bible (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 55-73. Josephus, unlike the Aramaic Levi Document and Ben Sira, not only refers to prie…

Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy 22 (2014) 1-24 brill.com/jjtp 2 Enoch and the Trajectories of Jewish Cosmology: From Mesopotamian Astronomy to Greco-Egyptian Philosophy in Roman Egypt Annette Yoshiko Reed Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. …