Philo, contemporary with Herod, 45, 50;
family of, 46;
works of 74 ff.;
philosophical training of,
49;
flees from Alexandria, 60;
meeting of Peter and Mark
with, 73;
forced into Sanhedrin of Alexandria,
61;
writings of, regarded as testimony
to Christianity, 73, 156;
influence of, over Christian
religious philosophy, 195, 242 ff.;
relation of, to Greek philosophers,
48, 52;
acquaintance of, with Chaldean
and Indian thought, 48;
his interpretation and views
of the Bible, 49, 102, 108 ff.;
evidence of his knowledge
of Hebrew language, 49;
follows Hebrew tradition,
159, 199 ff.;
compared with Spinoza, 73,
134, 163;
on persecutions of Sejanus
and Flaccus, 62, 78;
replies to attacks of stoics,
64, 95;
stoics’ view of God
compared with that of, 185;
goes to Italy, 66;
refers to Apion, 63, 101;
Josephus’ knowledge
of the works of, 222;
Christian teachers preserve
works of, 156, 247;
relation of, to the Halakah,
202 f.;
comparison of Maimonides with,
229 f.;
doctrine of the Logos (see
Logos), 144 ff.;
connection between Saadia
and, 226 f.;
the Hellenizer of the Cabbalah,
235;
opposed to missionary attitude
of Paul, 249.
Plato, hears Jeremiah, 15;
Philo’s style reminiscent
of, 48;
conception of the Law in,
131;
Philo’s philosophy compared
with that of, 170 ff.;
dominant philosophical principle
of, 174;
a mystic, 230;
conception of God in, 254.
Ptolemies, the: Ptolemy I, increases
number of Jewish inhabitants in
Alexandria, 15;
IV, gives Heliopolis to Onias,
16;
admirers of Scriptures, 23.
Questions and Answers to Genesis and
Exodus, now incomplete, 75, 81 f.;
a preliminary study to more
elaborate works, 81;
Hebraic in form, 82.
Repentance, tractate appended to Life of Moses, 75.
Rome, Alexandria second to, 14;
conversion widespread in (see
Egypt), 32;
Agrippa an exile from, 51;
power of Jews at, 62;
Jewish struggle with, 220;
Philo’s apocryphal meeting
with Peter at, 73;
national life and culture
undermined at (see National), 218.
Saadia, founds new school of Jewish philosophy,
225 f.;
connection between Philo and,
226 f.
Samaritan, doctrines with reference to
Pentateuch, 106;
Jew, story of, 98.
Sanhedrin, Hillel, president of, 45;
Philo forced into Alexandrian,
61;
duties of members of, 61;
of Alexandrian community,
202;
of Jerusalem and capital punishment,
203;
differences between Palestinian
Halakah and Alexandrian, 203 f.
Sejanus, Tiberius falls under influence
of, 62;
Antonia opponent of, 62;
Philo’s book on persecution
of, 62, 78;
disgrace and death of, 65.