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Author Taylor, Joan E.

Title Jewish women philosophers of first-century Alexandria : Philo's 'Therapeutae' reconsidered / Joan E. Taylor.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  296.81 T243J    Check Shelf
Description xv, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered -- On Method -- Philo's De Vita Contemplativa in Historical Context -- Identity: The Name 'Therapeutae' and the Essenes -- Placements: The Geographical and Social Locations of the Mareotic Group -- The Philosophia of Ioudaismos -- Allegory and Asceticism -- A Solar Calendar -- Women and Gender in De Vita Contemplativa -- Paradigms of 'Women' in Discourses on Philosophia -- Women and Sex in De Vita Contemplativa -- Gendered Space -- Gender Blenders: Moses, Miriam, and Music -- Partial translation of Philo of Alexandria, De Vita Contemplativa / Joan E. Taylor -- De Migratione Abrahami 86-96 / Francis H. Colson, George H. Whitaker -- Epitome of Chaeremon the Stoic, 'On the Egyptian Priests' / Pieter van der Horst.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages [365]-390) and indexes.
Subject Therapeutae.
Jewish philosophers -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History.
Women philosophers -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History.
Jewish philosophy -- History.
Judaism -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 70 A.D.
ISBN 0199259615
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