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.
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Jewish philosophers -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History.
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Women philosophers -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History.
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Jewish philosophy -- History.
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Judaism -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 70 A.D.
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ISBN |
0199259615 |
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