Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 239 pages of information about Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria.

Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 239 pages of information about Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria.

  Septuagint, Hellenistic development marked by, 25;
    Philo’s version of origin of, 26;
    celebrations in honor of, 27;
    infusion of Greek philosophic ideas into, 28;
    Christianizing influence of, 29;
    value of, to the cultured Gentile, 33;
    replaced by new Greek version of Old Testament, 224.

  Solomon, Wisdom of, written at Alexandria, 31.

  Specific Laws, The, description of, 83;
    socialism of Bible emphasized in, 86.

  Spinoza, his ideal of life, 53;
    compared with Philo’s, 73, 134, 163, 239;
    on Jewish thought, 137;
    influenced by Philo, 237 ff.;
    approaches Bible from critical standpoint, 239.

  Stoics, the chief Anti-Semites, 63;
    Philo replies to attacks of, 64, 95;
    in conflict with Jews at Alexandria, 94;
    beliefs of, 64, 94, 116, 176;
    view of God compared with that of Philo, 185.

  Synagogues,
    at Alexandria, 16, 37.

  Tiberius Alexander,
    nephew of Philo, 71.

  Tradition, Jewish,
    at Alexandria, 27;
    Philo and Jewish, 199 ff.

  Zealots, flight of,
    to Alexandria, 71.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  Comp.  Leviticus Rabba 13.]

[Footnote 2:  Comp.  Josephus, Ant.  IX. 1.]

[Footnote 3:  Sukkah 51^{b}.]

[Footnote 4:  Quoted by Josephus, Ant.  XIV. 7.]

[Footnote 5:  Ant.  XII. 5, 9, XX. 10.]

[Footnote 6:  Josephus, Bell.  Jud. VII. 10.]

[Footnote 7:  Comp. the passages in the “Antiquities” above and the Bell.  Jud. V. 5.]

[Footnote 8:  Menahot 109, Abodah Zarah 52^{b}.]

[Footnote 9:  De Leg. II. 578.]

[Footnote 10:  Comp. De Mon. I. 5.]

[Footnote 11:  Dr. Hirseh, in The Jews’ College Jubilee Volume, p.39.]

[Footnote 12:  Menahot 119.]

[Footnote 13:  Comp.  Ant.  XIV. 14-16.]

[Footnote 14:  Ant.  XVI. 7.]

[Footnote 15:  Philo, In Flacc. 6.]

[Footnote 16:  C.  Apion. II. 5.]

[Footnote 17:  I have used the word anti-Semite because, though the hatred at Alexandria was not racial, but national, it has now become synonymous with Jew-hater generally.]

[Footnote 18:  Quoted in C.  Apion.  I. 22.]

[Footnote 19:  De V. Mos.  II. 6, 7.]

[Footnote 20:  See p. 22, above.]

[Footnote 21:  Preface to Ecclesiasticus.]

[Footnote 22:  Tract.  Soferim I. 7.]

[Footnote 23:  Tanhuma [Hebrew:  ki tsha]]

[Footnote 24:  See p. 23, above.]

[Footnote 25:  Orac.  Sib., ed.  Alexandre, III. 8.]

[Footnote 26:  Ibid., III. 195.]

[Footnote 27:  Comp.  Strabo, Frag. 6, Didot.]

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