Judas Maccabaeus, struggles against Hellenizing party, 18.
Krochmal, Nachman, criticism of Philo, 240.
Life of Moses, contents of, 75,
79 f.;
an attempt to set monotheism
before the world, 80;
tractates appended to, 75.
Lives of Abraham and Joseph, description of, 83.
Lives of Isaac and Jacob, contents of, 83.
Logos, 143 ff.;
its relation to God’s
Providence, 143;
meaning of, 144-164, 148;
Aristobulus on, 146;
regarded as the effluence
of God, 149;
spoken of as a person, 156;
the soul, an image of, 178;
development of Philo’s
doctrine of, 192.
Maimonides, object of his Moreh, 91;
principles of, 99, 229;
comparison of Philo with,
229 f.
Mark Antony, Alexander Lysimachus in the confidence of, 46.
Monastic communities, supposed record of Christian, in Philo, 73.
Moses, Philo a follower of, 60, 113 f.;
Philo’s ideal type,
79 f.;
Philo, as interpreter of his
revelation, 104, 106 f.
See Life of Moses.
National, centre at Jerusalem, Philo on,
20, 41, 86;
life undermined at Rome and
Alexandria, 218.
Old Testament, Septuagint translation
of, 25-30;
Aquila’s new Greek version
of, 224.
Onias, leader of army of Egyptian monarch,
18;
successor to high priesthood,
18;
builds temple, 18, 19 f.;
temple of, dismantled, 71;
Jewish writers silent about
work of, 19.
Oral law, observance of, standardized in the Halakah, 126.
Origen, distinguishes three methods of
interpretation, 76;
teacher of Patristic school,
195; imitates Philo, 186.
Palestine, struggle for, between Ptolemies
and Seleucids, 17;
Hellenism of, compared with
that of Athens, 24, 25;
rabbis of, 28;
Philo visits, 50;
effect of Hellenic influence
in, 54;
New Moon a solemn day in,
121;
aims of Jewish thought in,
140;
doctrine of angels in, 140.
Palestinian Jews, under same rule as Egyptian
Jews, 15;
rabbis, oral tradition, 34;
development of Jewish culture,
42 f., 200;
Midrash, Philo’s acquaintance
with, 52;
schools, relation existing
between Alexandrian and, 199 f., 203 f.,
213.
Paul, the most commanding of the apostles,
247;
influence of, compared with
that of Jesus, 247;
rejection of the Torah by,
248;
sets up a new faith in Jesus,
251.
Pentateuch, Samaritan doctrines with reference to, 106.
Peshat, as a form of interpretation, 103.