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 ...

And I think that's really one of the wonderful features of Jewish philosophy. Sort of, move from Philo to the early 10th century, and so we find people like Saadia Gaon, writing in Egypt.

“The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature” is his latest work. It might not be his most consequential. That is not, however, because of the work’s lack of cleverness, ...

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 ...

For example, Philo of Alexandria, a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, used Greek philosophy to interpret the Hebrew Bible. During the Islamic Golden Age in the 8th to 13th centuries CE, Jews lived in ...

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 ...

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.