This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.

Philo noted that " this class of persons may be met with in many places, for both Greece and barbarian countries want to enjoy whatever is perfectly good.

The history of Caligula's reign is extremely problematic as only two sources contemporary with Caligula have survived — the works of Philo and Seneca.

Philo had inferred from the expression, " Let us make man ," of Genesis that God had used other beings as assistants in the creation of man, and he explains in this way why man is capable of vice as well as virtue, ascribing the origin of the latter to God, of the former to His helpers in the work of creation.

It is recognized as the etymology of the form Ossaioi ( and note that Philo also offered an O spelling ) and Essaioi and Esseni spelling variations have been discussed by VanderKam, Goranson and others.

A detailed but spurious account of Ignatius ' arrest and his travails and martyrdom is the material of the Martyrium Ignatii which is presented as being an eyewitness account for the church of Antioch, and as if written by Ignatius ' companions, Philo of Cilicia, deacon at Tarsus, and Rheus Agathopus, a Syrian.

It is probably too much to assume a direct connection with Philo of Alexandria in this particular.

The slaughter of the lambs on the 14th is mentioned in The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish work of the Ptolemaic period, and by the Herodian-era writers Josephus and Philo.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

* 1833 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.

and is repeated with embellishments by Philo of Alexandria, Josephus

* 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.

Philo argues that even if the universe is indeed designed, it is unreasonable to justify the conclusion that the designer must be an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent God-the God of classical theism.

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He, along with Philo of Byzantium, Strabo, Herodotus and Diodoros of Sicily, is attributed with the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which he described in a poem composed about 140 BC:

The earliest extant use of the term monastērion is by the 1st century AD Jewish philosopher Philo in On The Contemplative Life, ch.

Philo argued that a true conditional is one that does not begin with a truth and end with a falsehood.

The Foundation's president is " Reverend " Ivan Stang ( Doug Smith ) and the Vice President is Dr. Philo Drummond ( Steve Wilcox ).

On the other hand, Philo of Alexandria calls the child of a Jew and a non-Jew a nothos ( bastard ), regardless of whether the non-Jewish parent is the father or the mother.

He is revealed to be an old nemesis of Marjory the Trash Heap and enslaves Philo and Gunge when they leave home for greener pastures in " Home is Where the Trash is ".

At this point, Philo tells her that the hour is drawing late and she must rest while “ my mind keeps it usual anguished watch .” However, she is not satisfied to end the discussion yet.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.

In this context, Philo wrote that Caligula " regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his ".

Nonetheless, these lost primary sources, along with the works of Seneca and Philo, were the basis of surviving secondary and tertiary histories on Caligula written by the next generations of historians.

The Jewish philosopher Philo merged these two themes when he described the Logos as God's creator of and mediator with the material world.

His patristic commentaries align closely with Jewish tradition, and he indulges in allegorical and mystical subtleties after the manner of Philo and the Alexandrian school.

In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.

Philo of Byzantium and Hero of Alexandria knew of the principle that certain substances, notably air, expand and contract and described a demonstration in which a closed tube partially filled with air had its end in a container of water.

In July 1945, Harris signed with Philo, a label owned by the brothers Leo and Edward Mesner.

Philo reports that upon reading the letters, Tiberius " wrote to Pilate with a host of reproaches and rebukes for his audacious violation of precedent and bade him at once take down the shields and have them transferred from the capital to Caesarea.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

According to H. R. F. Keating, " Later the cousins took a sharper view of the Philo Vance character, Manfred Lee calling him, with typical vehemence, " the biggest prig that ever came down the pike ".

To this end Philo chose from philosophical tenets of Greeks, refusing those that did not harmonize with Judaism such as Aristotle's doctrine of the eternity and indestructibility of the world.

This line-up also played at the Vibe for Philo gig on 4 January 1996, with a number of other notable musicians including Eric Bell, Midge Ure, Henry Rollins, Therapy?

The character Philo, a religious sceptic, voices Hume's criticisms of the argument.

), F. C. Conybeare (" Philo About the Contemplative Life ," Oxford, 1895 ), and Wendland (" Die Therapeuten ," etc., Leipsig, 1896 ) ascribe the entire work to Philo, basing their argument wholly on linguistic reasons, which seem sufficiently conclusive.

Advocates of the " Hellenic influences " argument attempt to trace the influence of Hellenic philosophers such as Philo of Alexandria on post-Apostolic Christianity, which then interpreted the Bible through a Middle Platonist and later Neoplatonist filter.

She persists in her refusal to recognize any save the love of the intellect, and finding that argument cannot avail her against the subtleties of Philo ’ s reasoning, reminds him of his promise to tell of the effects of love, for she would know further of the dangers into which he would lead her.

Fowden however asserts that the earliest occurrence of the name was in the Athenagora by Philo of Byblos circa 64 – 141 CE.

Other scholars, however, deny direct influence but say both Philo and Early Christianity borrow from a common source.

Philo, however, interpreted " Elohim " ( LXX.

In Sophia ’ s opinion, love and desire are exclusive ; however, Philo argues that love and desire mix in things we find pleasurable.

Philo, however is careful to point out that his love has no end but torment and grief, because Sophia is unwilling to grant him his desire and makes no return of his love.

He is, however, better known as the adversary than the disciple of Philo ; and Cicero mentions a treatise called Sosus, written by him against his master, in which he refutes the scepticism of the Academics.