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That’s the kind of situation Simon Maccabeus found himself in, as described in the First Book of Maccabees. So, where are we in the story? Jonathan, Simon’s brother, had been captu...
The writer Josephus, in his work Against Apion, deals with just such an argument. He's responding to the claims of a fellow named Apion, who’s taking potshots at the Jewish people....
This is precisely the puzzle posed in The Midrash of Philo. It's a beautiful, thought-provoking exploration of the early chapters of Genesis, attributed to Philo of Alexandria, a J...
Yet, when we delve into ancient Jewish thought, we find just that kind of imaginative, symbolic thinking. Let's take a journey to explore one such fascinating idea, found in the Mi...
Philo of Alexandria, that brilliant Jewish philosopher who lived around the time of Jesus, had some pretty compelling ideas about this. And they're not just philosophical musings; ...
It's easy to see him as just a sneaky snake, but Jewish tradition, especially in the writings we call midrash, often sees things on a deeper, symbolic level. Philo, the 1st-century...
Philo, a Jewish philosopher living in Alexandria around the time of Jesus, grappled with this idea. He saw that virtue, that inner goodness, could actually make someone "older" in ...
Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher living in Roman Egypt, certainly thought so. He delved into the numerical symbolism of the Torah, seeking hidden meanings within the seemi...
But what if I told you there's a perspective, woven into ancient Jewish thought, that offers a slightly different angle? Let's delve into something called the Midrash of Philo. Now...
