He was the first Jewish philosopher who contributed anything new to Jewish-Greek philosophy. His philosophy incorporated the somewhat mystical views of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (about ...

A Jewish leader and scholar, Philo (circa 20 BC – 40 AD) risked his life to plead for greater tolerance for Jews in the Roman Empire. Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and ...

But the Jewish sources in Spinoza’s teachings are so patent that a compendium of Jewish philosophy could not but properly include his doctrines. Spinoza was by no means the last Jewish philosopher.

The Egyptian port city—home to a legendary ancient library—produced Philo, the first major Jewish philosopher. The autonomous community was thoroughly Hellenized, although this did not rob ...

Dr. Hans Levy, a young Jewish scholar here who was sent on a study mission last year by the German Scientific Emergency Society to the Orient, Transcaucasia and Russia, has discovered new texts of ...