Philo Judaeus (ca. 20 BC-ca. AD 45) was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher. An important example of philosophical syncretism, he was a Diaspora Jew prepared to concede a good deal to Hellenism in his interpretation of the Scriptures. Philo Judaeus was...

Philo was the first to formulate the problem of the reconciliation of faith and reason, which was to dominate the history of philosophy until René Descartes and Benedict de Spinoza shifted the focus to rational thought in the seventeenth...

Philo Judaeus [addendum] The original entry on Philo Judaeus was written by Harry Wolfson, one of the preeminent scholars of medieval religious philosophy. A major premise of his general work is that Philo 42. Albany: State University of New York Press,...

(c.20 BCE—50 CE) Ancient philosopher. Philo lived in Alexandria and interpreted the Jewish faith in the light of contemporary philosophical thinking. He wrote on such subjects as *creation, *allegory, the *soul and *providence but his work was...

Philo Judaeus(Fl. 20 Bce–40 Ce) Philo Judaeus, the Jewish Hellenistic philosopher, was the son of a wealthy and prominent Alexandrian family. Philo was well educated in both Judaism and Greek philosophy. Little is known about the actual events of...

PHILO JUDAEUS (c. 20 BCE–50 CE), Hellenistic Jewish thinker, author of an elaborate synthesis of Jewish religious thought and Greek philosophy. Although the church fathers know him as Philo Judaeus (Jerome, De viris illustribus 11), modern...

Philo (20 BC - 50 AD), known also as Philo of Alexandria (gr. Φίλων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), Philo Judaeus, Yedidia, and Philo the Jew was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt. Philo used allegory to fuse and harmonize...

The works of Philo (c. 20 B.C.E. - 50 C.E.) share commonalities with present-day Jewish midrashic tradition even though they were written in Greek. A product of Alexandrian Jewry and Hellenistic cultural influences, Philo's literary exhortations to remain faithful to the Jewish way of...

A Brief Guide to Philo. By Kenneth Schenck. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005, xi + 172 pp., $24.95 paper. New Testament scholars and others interested in second Temple Judaism often refer to Philo, but many teachers know a lot less about Philo...

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