The works of Philo : complete and unabridged / translated by C.D. Yonge.
1993
181.06 P565w 1993
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Title
The works of Philo : complete and unabridged / translated by C.D. Yonge.
Author
Uniform Title
Works. English. 1993
Edition
New updated ed.
ISBN
0943575931
9780943575933
9780943575933
Imprint
Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Pub., ©1993.
Language
English
Description
xx, 918 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
181.06 P565w 1993
System Control No.
(OCoLC)29207197
(OCoLC)29207197
(OCoLC)29207197
Summary
While it would not be correct to say that Philo's works have been "lost"--Scholars have always known and used Philo--they have essentially been "misplaced" as far as the average student of the Bible is concerned. Now the translation of the eminent classicist C.D. Yonge is available in an affordable, easy-to-read edition, with a new foreword and newly translated passages, and containing supposed fragments of Philo's writings from ancient authors such as John of Damascus. The title and arrangement of the writings have been standardized according to scholarly conventions. A contemporary of Paul and Jesus, Philo Judaeus, of Alexandria, Egypt, is unquestionably among the most important writers for historians and students of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. Although Philo does not explicitly mention Jesus, or Paul, or any of the followers of Jesus, Philo lived in their world. It is from Philo, for example, that we learn about how, like the Gospel of John, Jews (and Greeks) in the Greco-Roman world spoke of the creative force of God as God's Logos. Philo, too, employs interpretive strategies that parallel those of the author of Hebrews. Most scholars would agree that Philo and the author of Hebrews are drawing from the same, or at least similar, traditions of Hellenistic Judaism. With these kind of connections to the world of Judaism and early Christianity, Philo cannot be ignored.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
On the creation
Allegorical interpretation, I
Allegorical interpretation, II
Allegorical interpretation, III
On the Cherubim
On the birth of Abel and the sacrifices offered by him and by his brother Cain
That the worse is wont to attack the better
On the posterity of Cain and his exile
On the giants
On the unchangeableness of God
On husbandry
Concerning Noah's work as a planter
On drunkenness
On the prayers and curses uttered by Noah when he became sober
On the confusion of tongues
On the migration of Abraham
Who is the heir of divine things
On mating with the preliminary studies
On flight and finding
On the change of names
On dreams, that they are God-sent
On Abraham
On Joseph
On the life of Moses, I
On the life of Moses, II
The Decalogue
The special laws, I
The special laws, II
The special laws, III
The special laws, IV
On the virtues
On rewards and punishments
Every good man is free
On the contemplative life or suppliants
On the eternity of the world
Flaccus
Hypothetica : apology for the Jews
On providence : fragment I
On providence : fragment II
On the embassy to Gaius : the first part of the treatise on virtues
Questions and answers on Genesis, I
Questions and answers on Genesis, II
Questions and answers on Genesis, III.
Allegorical interpretation, I
Allegorical interpretation, II
Allegorical interpretation, III
On the Cherubim
On the birth of Abel and the sacrifices offered by him and by his brother Cain
That the worse is wont to attack the better
On the posterity of Cain and his exile
On the giants
On the unchangeableness of God
On husbandry
Concerning Noah's work as a planter
On drunkenness
On the prayers and curses uttered by Noah when he became sober
On the confusion of tongues
On the migration of Abraham
Who is the heir of divine things
On mating with the preliminary studies
On flight and finding
On the change of names
On dreams, that they are God-sent
On Abraham
On Joseph
On the life of Moses, I
On the life of Moses, II
The Decalogue
The special laws, I
The special laws, II
The special laws, III
The special laws, IV
On the virtues
On rewards and punishments
Every good man is free
On the contemplative life or suppliants
On the eternity of the world
Flaccus
Hypothetica : apology for the Jews
On providence : fragment I
On providence : fragment II
On the embassy to Gaius : the first part of the treatise on virtues
Questions and answers on Genesis, I
Questions and answers on Genesis, II
Questions and answers on Genesis, III.
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