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Author : Philo (of Alexandria.)
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004131183
This book presents a new English translation of and philological-historical commentary on Philo's In Flaccum, the only document extant that deals with the anti-Jewish pogrom in Alexandria in 38 CE.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1589831888
Author : Philo of Philo of Alexandria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977515851
Philo of Alexandria), also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. Philo used philosophical allegory to harmonize Jewish scripture, mainly the Torah, with Greek philosophy. His method followed the practices of both Jewish exegesis and Stoic philosophy. His allegorical exegesis was important for several Christian Church Fathers, but he has barely any reception history within Rabbinic Judaism. He believed that literal interpretations of the Hebrew Bible would stifle humanity's perception of a God too complex and marvelous to be understood in literal human terms. Some scholars hold that his concept of the Logos as God's creative principle influenced early Christology. Other scholars deny direct influence but say that Philo and Early Christianity borrow from a common source. The only event in Philo's life that can be decisively dated is his participation in the embassy to Rome in 40 CE. He represented the Alexandrian Jews in a delegation to Roman Emperor Caligula following civil strife between the Alexandrian Jewish and Greek communities. The story of this event, and a few other biographical details, are found in Josephus and in Philo's own works, especially in Legatio ad Gaium (Embassy to Gaius) of which only two of the original five volumes survive. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Author : S. Daniel Breslauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791497449
The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth offers a panorama of diverse definitions of myth, understandings of Judaism, and competing evaluations of the "mythic" element in religion. The contributors focus on the problem of defining myth as a category in religious studies, examine modern religion and the role of myth in a "secularized" world, and look at specific cases of Jewish myth from biblical through modern times.
Author : Dorothy I. Sly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134681174
First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for international trade and shipping. Little remains of Alexandria's golden age. Few papyrus records of the city survive. Archaeologists' attempts to reveal its past have been frustrated by years of subsidence, earthquakes and continuous demolition and rebuilding. Our main guide to the city is Philo, an Alexandrian Jew, who, sometimes inadvertantly, incorporated information about his home city into his copious religious writings. In this compelling new study, Dorothy I. Sly searches through Philo's treatises for information about Alexandria. By recognising his shortcomings and prejudices, and questioning his judgements, she builds up an authentic picture of life in the first century.
Author : Philo
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066316990
Flaccus was a Roman appointed Viceroy of Alexandria in Egypt by the Emperor of Rome, Tiberius Caesar. He performed well but after the death of Tiberius, to whom he was very close, he became desultory in his duties, and Gaius ( the successor of Tiberius) eventually placed a death warrant on him. Flaccus was best known for his hatred of the Jews and all things Jewish, and his endeavors to do all he could to undermine and persecute them.
Author : Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3161488512
A collection of essays, most of which were published previously. Partial contents:
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674037995
What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions. By the first century of our era, Jews living abroad far outnumbered those living in Palestine and had done so for generations. Substantial Jewish communities were found throughout the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Asia Minor, the Tigris-Euphrates valley, Egypt, and Italy. Focusing especially on Alexandria, Greek cities in Asia Minor, and Rome, Gruen explores the lives of these Jews: the obstacles they encountered, the institutions they established, and their strategies for adjustment. He also delves into Jewish writing in this period, teasing out how Jews in the diaspora saw themselves. There emerges a picture of a Jewish minority that was at home in Greco-Roman cities: subject to only sporadic harassment; its intellectuals immersed in Greco-Roman culture while refashioning it for their own purposes; exhibiting little sign of insecurity in an alien society; and demonstrating both a respect for the Holy Land and a commitment to the local community and Gentile government. Gruen's innovative analysis of the historical and literary record alters our understanding of the way this vibrant minority culture engaged with the dominant Classical civilization.
Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317533917
The Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination. Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler. The first edition of this book established itself as the standard study of Caligula. It remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in English of this emperor’s reign, and has been translated into a number of languages. But the study of Classical antiquity is not a static phenomenon, and scholars are engaged in a persistent quest to upgrade our knowledge and thinking about the ancient past. In the thirty years since publication of the original Caligula there have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new edition constitutes a major revision and, in places, a major rewriting, of the original text. Maintaining the reader-friendly structure and organisation of its predecessor, it embodies the latest discoveries and the latest thinking, seeking to make more lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are particularly daunting to the non-specialist. Like the original, this revised Caligula is intended to satisfy the requirements of the scholarly community while appealing to a broad and general readership.
Author : David T. Runia,Gregory E. Sterling
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589837348
The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to furthering the study of Hellenistic Judaism, and in particular the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 B.C.E. to circa 50 C.E.).
Author : Joshua Yoder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110366037
Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern, however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with different degrees of relevance to the question and representing different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than a desire to commend Roman rule.
Author : Alexander Kulik,Lorenzo DiTommaso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780190863074
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.
Author : Andromache Karanika,Vassiliki Panoussi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351243391
This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world, focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic, theatre, lyric poetry, philosophy, historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea, with a chronological range from about 8th c. bce to 1st c. ce. The collection is organized according to broad themes to showcase the wide range of possibilities that trauma theory offers as a theoretical framework for a new analysis of ancient sources. It also demonstrates the various ways in which ancient texts illuminate contemporary problems and debates in trauma studies.
Author : Charles Duke Philo,Philo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125813618X
Author : Philo (of Alexandria)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:5014218
