Philo of Alexandria, who relied extensively on the Septuagint, says that the number of scholars was chosen by selecting six scholars from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.

He says that Philo agreed to represent the Alexandrian Jews in regard to civil disorder that had developed between the Jews and the Greeks in Alexandria ( Egypt ).

Josephus says Philo believed that God actively supported this refusal.

Philo says he was carrying a petition which described the sufferings of the Alexandrian Jews, and which asked the emperor to secure their rights.

Philo says he was regarded by his people as having unusual prudence, due to his age, education, and knowledge.

Speaking of the large Jewish population in Egypt, Philo says that Alexandria " had two classes of inhabitants, our own nation and the people of the country, and that the whole of Egypt was inhabited in the same manner, and that Jews who inhabited Alexandria and the rest of the country from the Catabathmos on the side of Libya to the boundaries of Ethiopia were not less than a million of men.

Philo says Flaccus, the Roman governor over Alexandria, permitted a mob to erect statues of the Emperor Caius Caligula in Jewish synagogues of Alexandria, an unprecedented provocation.

This invasion of the synagogues was perhaps resisted by force, since Philo then says that Flaccus " was destroying the synagogues, and not leaving even their name.

" In response, Philo says that Flaccus then " issued a notice in which he called us all foreigners and aliens ... allowing any one who was inclined to proceed to exterminate the Jews as prisoners of war.

" In addition, Philo says their enemies, " slew them and thousands of others with all kinds of agony and tortures, and newly invented cruelties, for wherever they met with or caught sight of a Jew, they stoned him, or beat him with sticks ".

Philo even says, " the most merciless of all their persecutors in some instances burnt whole families, husbands with their wives, and infant children with their parents, in the middle of the city, sparing neither age nor youth, nor the innocent helplessness of infants.

In Chandler's The Big Sleep Marlowe says he's " not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance " and explains that his method owes more to judgement of character than finding clues the police have missed.

Hurt by her callousness, Philo says that he is the only one dumb enough to want to take her further than her bed.

Eusebius says that Philo placed Sanchuniathon's works into nine books.

Philo further says that Taautus wrote the work Commentaries, in which he discussed the creation.

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 ".

Buchwesen, p. 100 ); in the statements of Philo ( preamble to his " Analysis of the Political Constitution of the Jews ") and in Josephus ( Contra Ap.

Philo describes a later, similar incident in which Pilate was chastened by Emperor Tiberius after antagonizing the Jews by setting up gold-coated shields in Herod's palace in Jerusalem.

Philo witnessed and described the Alexandrian pogroms against Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE.

The philosophical teachings of Philo and Ibn Gabirol were largely ignored by fellow Jews ; the parallel may be extended by adding that Philo and Ibn Gabirol, alike, exercised considerable influence in secular circles ; Philo upon early Christianity, and Ibn Gabirol upon the scholars of medieval Christianity.

So Philo being thus affronted, went out, and said to those Jews who were about him, that they should be of good courage, since Gaius's words indeed showed anger at them, but in reality had already set God against himself.

Philo himself claims in his Embassy to Gaius to have been part of an embassy sent by the Alexandrian Jews to the Roman Emperor Caligula.

Philo gives a detailed description of their sufferings, in a way that Josephus overlooks, to assert that the Alexandrian Jews were simply the victims of attacks by Alexandrian Greeks in the civil strife that had left many Jews and Greeks dead.

In Flaccus, Philo tells indirectly of his own life in Alexandria by describing how the situation of Jews in Alexandria changed after Gaius Caligula became the emperor of Rome.

Philo intended to show the fearful punishment meted out by God to the persecutors of the Jews ( on Philo's predilection for similar discussions see Siegfried, " Philo von Alexandria ," p. 157 ).

Like Philo, Justin also identified the Logos with the Angel of the Lord, and used this as a way of arguing for Christianity to Jews:

The letter is often mentioned and quoted in other texts, most noteably Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews ( c. 93 AD ), Aristobolus writing in a passage preserved by Eusebius, and by Philo of Alexandria.

The migration of Posen Jews to Prussia was mostly blocked until 1850, when they were finally naturalised .< ref > Philo-Lexikon: Handbuch des jüdischen Wissens, Berlin: Philo Verlag, < sup > 3 </ sup > 1936, reprint Frankfurt upon Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 1992, p. 570.

The ancient Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria describes an attack on Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE in which thousands of Jews died.

The doctrine of the body as the source of all evil corresponds entirely with the Neo-Pythagorean doctrine: the soul he conceives as a divine emanation, similar to Plato's νοῦς (" mind, understanding, reason ") ( see Siegfried, Philo, pp. 139ff ).

Philo takes the details of his story of the Creation entirely from Genesis 1, the Elohist account.

Philo is not entirely certain whether the body in itself or merely in its preponderance over the spirit is evil.

Although Philo liked to withdraw from the world in order to give himself up entirely to contemplation, and bitterly regretted the lack of such repose (" De Specialibus Legibus ," 1 299 ), he did not abandon the work that was required of him by the welfare of his people.

The earliest reference to the conferment of a third degree is from London, from the minutes of " Philo Musicae et Architecturae Societas Apollini ", a short-lived musical society composed entirely of Freemasons.

On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth, Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the area now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city.

Philo conceives of matter as evil, on the ground that no praise is meted out to it in Genesis (" Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit ," § 160 ).

This doctrine, as worked out by Philo, was composed of very different elements, including Greek philosophy, Biblical conceptions, pagan and late Jewish views.

Philo described an eight-sided ink pot with an opening on each side, which can be turned so that while any face is on top, a pen can be dipped and inked-yet the ink never runs out through the holes of the other sides.

Every time Oregano would breathe in Philo's direction, Philo would make all sorts of comic choking faces, pull out a can of air freshener, and say " Get those onions out of here!

They " professed an art of healing superior to that practiced in the cities " Philo notes, and the reader must be reminded of the reputation as a healer Saint Anthony possessed among his 4th-century contemporaries, who flocked out from Alexandria to reach him.

According to Philo Byblos, Sanchuniathon described unique beings that had no perception, out of whom intelligent beings came into existence.

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.

However, like Philo, the late-first-century writer Josephus testifies that the Roman governors of Roman Judaea, who governed from Caesarea Maritima on the coast, stayed in Herod's palace while they were in Jerusalem, carried out their judgements on the pavement immediately outside it, and had those found guilty flogged there ; Josephus indicates that Herod's palace is on the western hill, and it has recently ( 2001 ) been rediscovered under a corner of the Jaffa Gate citadel.

Apologists who acknowledge the issue with Philo point out that he lived in Alexandria, and the actual Jesus may have been so minor at that time that Philo simply missed him.

They also point out that his On Providence seems to indicate that Philo did personally visit Jerusalem near the end of his life.

Other Christ mythers point out that in Flaccus IV ( c39 CE ) Philo talks about Carabbas whose treatment by his tormentors eerily mirrors that of Jesus in Matthew :< Ref > Price, RG ( 2007 ) Jesus Myth – The Case Against Historical Christ

Philo, as well as some of the Church Fathers with a Platonic background, argued that the act of creation itself involved pre-existent matter, but made that matter in turn to have been created out of nothing.

Macquarie University historian John Dickson has pointed out that Philo of Alexandria, writing about the time of Jesus, tells us that sometimes the Romans handed the bodies of crucifixion victims over to family members for proper burial.