Philo
Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria (c. 20 BCE-c. 50 CE) · Egypt · Academics · Lived 15 BC to AD 50 · aged 64
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Something wrong?He built a bridge no one had attempted in writing: reading Moses through Plato, arguing that Jewish scripture and Greek philosophy weren't rivals but twin paths to the same truth.
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, A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world.
Moses … denied to the members of the sacred commonwealth unrestricted liberty to use and partake of the other kinds of food.
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Philo lived in Alexandria around 20 BCE to 50 CE, a Hellenistic Jew writing expansively in Greek at the intersection of two worlds. He argued that the Septuagint and the evolving Jewish law of his time together formed a blueprint for individual enlightenment, weaving Platonic philosophy into Second Temple Judaism. The one dateable moment in his life came in 40 CE, when civil strife between Alexandria's Jewish and Greek communities sent him to Rome as part of a delegation facing Caligula. His allegorical readings of the Torah - the first documented efforts of their kind - were revolutionary and routinely misunderstood: critics assumed allegory meant dismissing historicity, but Philo often insisted on the literal truth of scriptural events even as he read them symbolically. He left a method that shaped religious interpretation for centuries after him.
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