Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and scholar in the first century. Born in 30 BC to a wealthy Jewish family in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he was an important spokesman ...

It may, though, be pointed out that the early Christian Fathers were greatly influenced by Philo’s ideas and propositions. Yet Maimonides – though not the earliest Jewish philosopher certainly ...

Both of those strands of Hellenistic tradition as appropriated by Jewish philosophers like Philo, did, however, have an impact on Christians of a later generation who tried to make sense of Jesus ...