God's Acting, Man's Acting
Tradition and Philosophy in Philo of Alexandria
Biographical note
Francesca Calabi is Associate Professor of Philosophy in Late Antiquity at the University of Pavia. She works on Philo and on Aristotle, and collaborates in a new commentary of Plato's Republic. She has also edited the Italian translation of Philo's Decalogue, Josephus' Against Apion, and of the Letter of Aristeas.
Readership
All those interested in Ancient Philosophy, Hellenistic and Jewish Studies, Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins.
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Mireille Hadas-Lebel shines a spotlight on the complex life and works of Philo, the illustrious Alexandrian Jewish philosopher, offering a fascinating insight into a seminal religious thinker at the crossroads of Judaism and Hellenism.
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This book aims to introduce the Armenian version of Philo's writings also to those scholars not acquainted with Armenian Studies. The subject is approached from different perspectives - historical, hermeneutical, philological, linguistic - with special attention given to the reception of Philo ...
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An inquiry drawing on the presence of Hellenistic philosophy in Philo provides a better knowledge of the diffusion of Hellenistic philosophy since the late Republican age, as well as the relationship between Philo’s reception and other doxohraphical tradition.
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This work is both a biography of Eumenes of Cardia, a royal secretary turned successful general in the years following the death of Alexander the Great, and a study of ethnicity in an ancient Greek context.
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The influence of Greco-Roman philosophy on Philo of Alexandria's view of the Mosaic law is clear. This book explains how Philo integrated Greco-Roman conceptions of law, such as Unwritten Law, the Law of Nature, and the "Living Law," into his understanding of the divine origin of the Mosaic law ...
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The essays collected in Italian Studies on Philo of Alexandria give an overview of current Italian research on Philo of Alexandria. The articles approach the subject from various perspectives: historical, linguistic, philological, and philosophical.
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