Philo Judaeus

Philo Judaeus (i. e. Philo the Jew) (c. 20 BC– AD 45) was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, born in Alexandria. He studied the Greek philosophy, and found in it, particularly the teaching of Plato, the rationalist explanation of the religion of Moses, which he regarded as the revelation to which philosophy was but the key. He was a man of great learning and great influence among his people, and was in his old age one of an embassy sent by the Jews of Alexandria in A.D. 40 to Rome to protest against the imperial edict requiring the payment of divine honours to the emperor. He identified the Logos of the Platonists with the Word in the New Testament.

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Philo Remington, Philocretes, Philomela, Philopoemon, Philosophe