Philo's works, On the Embassy to Gaius and Flaccus, give some details on Caligula's early reign, but mostly focus on events surrounding the Jewish population in Judea and Egypt with whom he sympathizes.

Dr. Bernard Revel, in dissertation on " Karaite Halacha ", points to writings of a 10th century Karaite, Ya ' qub al-Qirqisani, who quotes Philo, illustrating how Karaites made use of Philo's works in development of Karaism.

Philo's works became important to Medieval Christian scholars who leveraged the work of Karaites to lend credence to their claims that " these are the beliefs of Jews "-a technically correct, yet mendacious, attribution.

Philo's works offer an anthology of Greek phraseology of the most different periods.

The Church Fathers have preserved most of Philo's works that are now extant.

On the etymology of names occurring in Philo's exegetical works see below.

None of Philo's works are extant ; our knowledge of his views is derived from Numenius, Sextus Empiricus and Cicero.

This reveals Philo's identification with the Jewish community.

Philo's doctrine of dead, inert, non-existent matter harmonizes in its essentials with the Platonic and Stoic doctrine.

Philo's views derive from a combination of Hellenistic philosophy with the Jewish Bible, which he considers as the source and standard not only of religious truth but in general of all truth.

Antiochos and Herakleitos dissected it at length in Lucullus ' presence, and in the ensuing weeks while the Roman party continued to await the arrival of the king from the south, Antiochos composed a vigorous polemic against Philo entitled Sosos, which marked his definitive break with Philo's so-called " Sceptical Academy ", and the beginning of the separate, more conservative, school eventually called the Old Academy.

The historian of technology George Sarton ( 1959 ), too, asserts that it is safe to assume the Arabic version is a faithful copying of Philo's original, and credits Philon explicitly with the invention.

Philo's passages show a jumbling together of Phoenician lore with Greek mythology, Zoroastrian beliefs and ancient Egyptian beliefs concerning the Ibis-headed god, Thoth, who in Philo is called Taautos or Tauthos.

The 3rd century Christian writer Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – 339 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, identified Philo's Therapeutae as the first Christian monks, identifying their renunciation of property, chastity, fasting, solitary lives with the cenobitic ideal of the Christian monks.

Realizing that Philo must have ordered the killer to murder Iris, Lenny convinces Faith to escape with them, but Philo's henchmen stop them.

Max disarms Lenny and shoots Philo with Lenny's gun, explaining that he set Philo up because he wanted to have Faith killed for what she knew about Jeriko One's death, and that he now intends to frame Lenny for Philo's murder.

Along the way, he has a run-in with a motorcycle gang called " The Black Widows ", who incur Philo's wrath after two gang members insult him and Clyde at a traffic light.

Philo's allegorizing, in which he was continuing an earlier tradition, had little effect in later Jewish thought, in part because the Jewish culture of Alexandria had dispersed by the fourth century, but Christian writers took up the allegorized interpretations that read the Old Testament as a series of prefigurations of the New Testament, in a time when rhetorical training was common, when the classics of mythology were still standard teaching texts, when the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods were still visible forms ( if not always fully recognized by the more learned populace ), and when the new religions such as Christianity adopted or rejected pagan elements by way of allegoresis ( the study and interpretation of allegory ).

Also, bioethicists may be concerned with the ethical implications of consciousness in medical cases of patients such as Karen Ann Quinlan, while neuroscientists may study patients with impaired consciousness in hopes of gaining information about how the brain works.

His subsequent main astronomical works were in some sense only further developments of it, concerned with finding more precise inner and outer dimensions for the spheres by calculating the eccentricities of the planetary orbits within it.

Weber's best known work in economics concerned the preconditions for capitalist development, particularly the relations between religion and capitalism, which he explored in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as well as in his other works on the sociology of religion.

Historical studies of music are for example concerned with a composer's life and works, the developments of styles and genres ( e. g. baroque concertos ), the social function of music for a particular group of people ( e. g. court music ), or modes of performance at a particular place and time ( e. g. Johann Sebastian Bach's choir in Leipzig ).

In ' Postmodernist Fiction ' ( 1987 ), Brian McHale details the shift from modernism to postmodernism, arguing that the former is characterized by an epistemological dominant, and that postmodern works have developed out of modernism and are primarily concerned with questions of ontology.

From early in his career, Alma-Tadema was particularly concerned with architectural accuracy, often including objects that he would see at museums – such as the British Museum in London – in his works.

With his FBI partner Dana Scully, he works in the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases that were marked as unsolvable and shelved by the FBI ; most of these cases involve supernatural or mysterious circumstances.

The institute acts as a resource for the UN system, with particular links to the UN bodies dealing with regional integration, and works in partnership with initiatives and centres throughout the world that are concerned with issues of integration and cooperation.

He was also interested in the controversies which concerned the Augsburg Confession in Germany, especially after 1564, on the doctrine of the Person of Christ and the sacrament, and published several works against Westphal, Hesshusen, Selnecker, Johannes Brenz, and Jakob Andrea.

Cecil has been a character in many works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign.

Although Strabo cited the antique Greek astronomers Eratosthenes and Hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts towards geography, he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical, such that his works were designed for statesmen who were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions.

Although, they are now much less well known than Population Bomb, they inspired many works such as the original Population Bomb pamphlet by Hugh Everett Moore in 1954 that inspired the name of Ehrlich's book, as well as some of the original societies concerned with population and environmental matters.

Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism.

One of the playwright ’ s functions is that concerned with adaptations of existing traditional drama, such as Charles Marowitz ’ s collages of Hamlet and Macbeth and other re-interpretations of Shakespeare's works, as well as Tom Stoppard ’ s approaches in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance art, music concerts, or poetry readings.

Where start-up technology companies are concerned, some courts have considered that the traditional factors for finding that an author is an " employee " can be less important than in more-established companies, for example if the employee works remotely and is not directly supervised, or if the employee is paid entirely in equity without benefits or tax withholding.

Solzhenitsyn argued that the Soviet government could not govern without the threat of imprisonment, and that the Soviet economy depended on the productivity of the forced labor camps, especially insofar as the development and construction of public works and infrastructure were concerned.

Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than unique representations, the enormous works — including the largest he had produced since Guernica in 1937 — earned a position of relevance in the Spanish canon of art.

Charles was concerned to possess copies of works in French, in order that his councellors had access to them.

Artwork based on Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla, one of the earliest influential works of vampire literature. Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.

He was not concerned with proper grammar, punctuation, or diction, although Selby's work is internally consistent ; he uses the same unorthodox techniques in most of his works.

These works concerned the energy generation capable of keeping stars hot.

Early textual critics were concerned with preserving the works of antiquity, and this continued through the medieval period into early modern times until the invention of the printing press.

Early works of Max Weber in the late 19th century were concerned with rural sociology.

Moreover, she was also concerned with literature, charging Lucas de Tuy to compose a chronicle on the Kings of Castile and León, and she herself being mentioned in the works of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada.