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Bentwich, Norman, 1883-1971

"Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria"

;
relation of, to Greek philosophers, 48, 52;
acquaintance of, with Chaldean and Indian thought, 48;
his interpretation and views of the Bible, 49, 102, 108 ff.;
evidence of his knowledge of Hebrew language, 49;
follows Hebrew tradition, 159, 199 ff.;
compared with Spinoza, 73, 134, 163;
on persecutions of Sejanus and Flaccus, 62, 78;
replies to attacks of stoics, 64, 95;
stoics' view of God compared with that of, 185;
goes to Italy, 66;
refers to Apion, 63, 101;
Josephus' knowledge of the works of, 222;
Christian teachers preserve works of, 156, 247;
relation of, to the Halakah, 202 f.;
comparison of Maimonides with, 229 f.;
doctrine of the Logos (_see_ Logos), 144 ff.;
connection between Saadia and, 226 f.;
the Hellenizer of the Cabbalah, 235;
opposed to missionary attitude of Paul, 249.
Plato, hears Jeremiah, 15;
Philo's style reminiscent of, 48;
conception of the Law in, 131;
Philo's philosophy compared with that of, 170 ff.;
dominant philosophical principle of, 174;
a mystic, 230;
conception of God in, 254.
Ptolemies, the: Ptolemy I, increases number of Jewish inhabitants in
Alexandria, 15;
IV, gives Heliopolis to Onias, 16;
admirers of Scriptures, 23.

_Questions and Answers to Genesis and Exodus_, now incomplete, 75, 81 f.


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