Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse

Contributions by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold Contributions by Michael Cover Contributions by Lutz Doering Contributions by Troels Engberg-Pedersen Contributions by Maren Niehoff Contributions by Dean Gregory E. Sterling Contributions by Mauro Bonazzi Contributions by Carlos Lévy Contributions by Gretchen Reydams-Schils Contributions by Ilaria Ramelli Contributions by Geert Roskam Contributions by Sharon Weisser Contributions by Jason Zurawski Edited by Michael Cover Edited by Lutz Doering

Book cover: Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse

Extent: 397 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Classical Studies, Philosophy

Series: Ioudaioi

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2024)

ISBN: 9783525500972

6.93 x 9.69 inches

Price: $138.00

In stock

Philo of Alexandria fashioned a new Jewish discourse from the writings of Moses and the best of Greek philosophy.


Greek authors likened “philosophical discourse” in the Hellenistic and Roman eras to an orchard. Logic, physics, and ethics served as the orchard walls, the trees, and the fruit of this enterprise. In a similar manner, this collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars and devoted to Philo of Alexandria’s fashioning of a new Jewish philosophical discourse, harvests the fruits of many disciplines – including the study of Ancient Judaism and History of Religions, Ancient Philosophy, and the Classics – and brings them to bear on one of the Roman period’s most prolific and creative Jewish thinkers and public figures. Essays treat Philo’s relationship to the varied schools of philosophy: Socratic thought, Pyrrhonism, Epicureanism, Pythagoreism, Stoicism, and Middle Platonism all played a role in the seedbed of Philo’s orchard. The volume also includes a new catalogue of Philo’s library and a study of Philo’s reception in Christian philosophical discourse.

  • Contributions by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold
  • Contributions by Michael Cover
  • Contributions by Lutz Doering
  • Contributions by Troels Engberg-Pedersen
  • Contributions by Maren Niehoff
  • Contributions by Dean Gregory E. Sterling
  • Contributions by Mauro Bonazzi
  • Contributions by Carlos Lévy
  • Contributions by Gretchen Reydams-Schils
  • Contributions by Ilaria Ramelli
  • Contributions by Geert Roskam
  • Contributions by Sharon Weisser
  • Contributions by Jason Zurawski
  • Edited by Michael Cover
  • Edited by Lutz Doering