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Take the story of Noah and the Ark. Genesis 8:1 says, "God remembered Noah, and the beasts, and the cattle…" Beasts before cattle? What's going on here? Philo, the 1st-century Jewi...
It's more than just a tale of survival; it's a carefully constructed narrative, brimming with numerical significance. to the depths of the flood and see what we can unearth. The te...
Now, Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish philosopher who lived way back in the first century. He tried to bridge the gap between Greek philosophy and Jewish tradition, and his writing...
After the Flood, after all that chaos and destruction, Noah releases this dove. He's hoping for good news, a sign that things are getting better. And what does the dove do? It flie...
The floodwaters had receded. The earth was dry. The ark door stood ajar. So, why didn’t he just… leave? That’s the question the Midrash of Philo, a collection of interpretations an...
It's not just a children's tale about animals two-by-two. Ancient interpreters saw layers of meaning in every detail, even the order in which people entered and exited the ark. Phi...
Philo, the great Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, grappled with these questions centuries ago. And his interpretations, preserved in what we call The Midrash of Philo, offer a fas...
It’s more than just pretty colors arching across the sky. : God makes a covenant, a sacred agreement, with humanity after the great flood. And what's the sign of this unbreakable p...
Take Noah, for example. We all know the story: the ark, the flood, the animals two-by-two. But then, Genesis 9:20 hits us: "Noah began to be a cultivator of the earth." Okay... so ...
