Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography by Niehoff, Maren R.

Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300175233)

Vendor: Maren R. Niehoff
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Format: Hardcover
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Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography by Niehoff, Maren R.

Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography

$38.00
Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography by Niehoff, Maren R.

Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography

$38.00
Format: Hardcover
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Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that his trip to Rome in 38 CE was a turning point in his life. There he was exposed not only to new political circumstances but also to a new cultural and philosophical environment.

Following the pogrom in Alexandria, Philo became active as the head of the Jewish embassy to Emperor Gaius and as an intellectual in the capital of the empire, responding to the challenges of his time and creatively reconstructing his identity, though always maintaining pride in the Jewish tradition. Philo's trajectory from Alexandria to Rome and his enthusiastic adoption of new modes of thought made him a key figure in the complex negotiation between East and West.

Author: Maren R. Niehoff
ISBN-10: 030017523X
ISBN-13: 9780300175233
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2018
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.10d

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Choice 07/01/2018
By Maren R. Niehoff
By Maren R. Niehoff
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Maren R. Niehoff, Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, trained in Jerusalem, Berlin, and Oxford and at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria, Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture, and The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature. Niehoff received the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines at the Hebrew University in 2011 and is widely regarded as one of the leading Philonists today.

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