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The Wisdom of Philo of Alexandria: Between Athens and Jerusalem

The Wisdom of Philo of Alexandria: Between Athens and Jerusalem

Mundi Press, Sapientia

Paperback

PhilosophyJudaism

ISBN13: 9798198481503
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 24 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Jewish philosopher in Roman Alexandria dared to argue that Moses and Plato were reaching for the same truth. His ambitious synthesis shaped the course of Western thought for two thousand years.

The Wisdom of Philo of Alexandria: Between Athens and Jerusalem recovers the life and ideas of the ancient world's most original mediator between Greek philosophy and Jewish revelation. Writing in first-century Alexandria, Philo produced a vast body of philosophical commentary on the Torah, arguing that the laws of Moses expressed the same rational order that Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics had glimpsed through unaided reason. His concept of the Logos as the creative instrument of a transcendent God, his allegorical method of scriptural interpretation, and his account of the soul's ascent toward the divine became foundational for centuries of theological and philosophical reflection.

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