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.

  Judas Maccabaeus, struggles against Hellenizing party, 18.

  Krochmal, Nachman, criticism of Philo, 240.

  Life of Moses, contents of, 75, 79 f.;
    an attempt to set monotheism before the world, 80;
    tractates appended to, 75.

  Lives of Abraham and Joseph, description of, 83.

  Lives of Isaac and Jacob, contents of, 83.

  Logos, 143 ff.;
    its relation to God’s Providence, 143;
    meaning of, 144-164, 148;
    Aristobulus on, 146;
    regarded as the effluence of God, 149;
    spoken of as a person, 156;
    the soul, an image of, 178;
    development of Philo’s doctrine of, 192.

  Maimonides, object of his Moreh, 91;
    principles of, 99, 229;
    comparison of Philo with, 229 f.

  Mark Antony, Alexander Lysimachus in the confidence of, 46.

  Monastic communities, supposed record of Christian, in Philo, 73.

  Moses, Philo a follower of, 60, 113 f.;
    Philo’s ideal type, 79 f.;
    Philo, as interpreter of his revelation, 104, 106 f.
    See Life of Moses.

  National, centre at Jerusalem, Philo on, 20, 41, 86;
    life undermined at Rome and Alexandria, 218.

  Old Testament, Septuagint translation of, 25-30;
    Aquila’s new Greek version of, 224.

  Onias, leader of army of Egyptian monarch, 18;
    successor to high priesthood, 18;
    builds temple, 18, 19 f.;
    temple of, dismantled, 71;
    Jewish writers silent about work of, 19.

  Oral law, observance of, standardized in the Halakah, 126.

  Origen, distinguishes three methods of interpretation, 76;
    teacher of Patristic school, 195; imitates Philo, 186.

  Palestine, struggle for, between Ptolemies and Seleucids, 17;
    Hellenism of, compared with that of Athens, 24, 25;
    rabbis of, 28;
    Philo visits, 50;
    effect of Hellenic influence in, 54;
    New Moon a solemn day in, 121;
    aims of Jewish thought in, 140;
    doctrine of angels in, 140.

  Palestinian Jews, under same rule as Egyptian Jews, 15;
    rabbis, oral tradition, 34;
    development of Jewish culture, 42 f., 200;
    Midrash, Philo’s acquaintance with, 52;
    schools, relation existing between Alexandrian and, 199 f., 203 f.,
    213.

  Paul, the most commanding of the apostles, 247;
    influence of, compared with that of Jesus, 247;
    rejection of the Torah by, 248;
    sets up a new faith in Jesus, 251.

 Pentateuch, Samaritan doctrines with reference to, 106.

  Peshat, as a form of interpretation, 103.

Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.