The Politics of Philo Judaeus: Practice and Theory, with a General Bibliography of Philo

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rule of God's truly divine representative. What those Christians did not
know was that their thoughts about the king, his dignity, his legal

power, his individual personification of the state, his duties, his privi­
leges, and his ultimate inadequacy and transitoriness, were all worked
out by the forgotten Jews of the Diaspora as they struggled to adapt
their Jewish heritage to the daring claims of hellenistic and Roman
royalty.