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What Modern Jews Can Learn from the First Jewish Philosopher
Philo’s desire for balance.
Philo of Alexandria lived in the 1st century BCE and wrote sophisticated books about Jewish thought and the Hebrew Bible that were deeply informed by the ideas of Plato and other ancient philosophers. While his work was much studied by early Christian thinkers, Philo plays a somewhat anomalous role in Judaism. The Talmud was shaped by Jews living in Judea and Babylonia, who betray no knowledge of Philo’s ideas, much as he displays no knowledge of rabbinic traditions. Yet once Jews rediscovered his work, written in Greek, and translated it into Hebrew, some would find inspiration in it, as Dovid Campbell writes:
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