-
On The Posterity of Cain and his Exile
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331):While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo’s special and chief scientific work is his large allegorical commentary on Genesis, Νομων ιερων αλληγοριαι (such is the title given…
-
Worse Is Wont to Attack Better
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331):While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo’s special and chief scientific work is his large allegorical commentary on Genesis, Νομων ιερων αλληγοριαι (such is the title given…
-
On The Birth of Abel
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331):While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo’s special and chief scientific work is his large allegorical commentary on Genesis, Νομων ιερων αλληγοριαι (such is the title given…
-
On The Cherubim
-
Allegorical Interpretation, III
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331):While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo’s special and chief scientific work is his large allegorical commentary on Genesis, Νομων ιερων αλληγοριαι (such is the title given…
-
Allegorical Interpretation, II
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331):While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo’s special and chief scientific work is his large allegorical commentary on Genesis, Νομων ιερων αλληγοριαι (such is the title given…
-
Allegorical Interpretation, I
Emil Schürer writes (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 329-331):While this shorter explanation in a catechetical form [Questions and Answers on Genesis] was intended for more extensive circles, Philo’s special and chief scientific work is his large allegorical commentary on Genesis, Νομων ιερων αλληγοριαι (such is the title given…
-
On The Creation
Emil Schürer writes:“The third chief group of Philo’s works on the Pentateuch is a Delineation of the Mosaic Legislation for non-Jews. In this whole group indeed, the allegorical explanation is still occasionally employed. In the main however we have here actual historical delineations, a systematic statement of the great legislative work of Moses, the contents,…
-
Preface to Philo
The author of the following Treatises was, as the title by which he is generally known imports, of Jewish extraction, and a descendant of the sacerdotal tribe of Levi. He is spoken of by Josephus as one of the most eminent of his contemporary countrymen, and as the principal of the embassy which was sent…
-
More Books on Philo
The edition of reference is that of Leopald Cohn, Paulus Wendland and Siegfried Reiter, Philonis Alexandri opera quae supersunt, Berlin 1896–1915. It contains all the treatises in Greek (six volumes plus an index volume). The editors of Philo in the Loeb Classical Library (LCL), F.H. Colson, J.W. Earp, Ralph Marcus and G.H. Whitaker, sought mainly…