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.

  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.

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