Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

gorically because he considered it to be a separate unit (Praem. 1). Indeed, when treating it in hisExposition of the Law,he ins ...

gesis, addresses the question of why there are two creation stories that ap- parently convey contradictory accounts of man’s cre ...

Exposition of the Law Philo’sExposition of the Lawincludes his treatiseOn the Creation of the World (De opificio mundi),his live ...

through the wholeExpositionis thus the coherence of norms attested in nature by the creation of the world, in history by the liv ...

Genesis as well as Plato’sTimaeus,Philo stresses that Moses and the Greek philosopher perceived the true nature of the creator G ...

of character visible in early infancy subsequently reach maturity and en- able the hero to play his destined role in life. In Ph ...

treating the virtues(De virtutibus),the other the rewards and punish- ments resulting from observance or nonobservance of the La ...

lation of the Hebrew Bible, connected Greek education and philosophy with Jewish culture, and adapted many elements of the surro ...

has been given to the literary structure and the content of these treatises in an effort to explain their idiosyncrasies. New ed ...

him. This view also agrees with the biblical narrative in the book of Gene- sis. Philo maintains that long before Hesiod Moses w ...

because they cannot be compelled to do wrong. They also treat indifferent things with indifference; this refers to the Stoic con ...

Whether AnimalsHave Reason (De animalibus) Like the previous treatises, this work has been transmitted in Armenian. It again ref ...

Setting While Philo might have written some of the treatises early in his life, the bulk of the treatises — and all those extant ...

39 and arrived in Rome the next spring (Philo,Legat.355; Josephus,Ant. 18.257-60). Philo suffered through the indignities of Gai ...

on the use ofhypoth 3 k 3 elsewhere in Philo; “Imputations” in the sense of false opinions about Jews; or “Hypothetical Proposit ...

as “athletes of virtue.” The descriptions stand in the same tradition as the depictions of Egyptian priests in Chaeremon (in Por ...

be the third treatise in the series. Philo ended theEmbassywith a reference to thePalinodeorReversal(Embassy373). IfFlaccusand t ...

Philo did have a specific lens through which he read his ancestral Scriptures. It was captured in antiquity by thebon mot:“Eithe ...

God to be ontologically prior to everything else that was good. He identi- fied thehoZnof Exod. 3:14 with theto onof Platonism a ...

Bibliographies Radice, Roberto, and David T. Runia. 1988.Philo of Alexandria: An Annotated Bibli- ography 1937-1986.Leiden: Bril ...