Philo of Alexandria
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c. 20 BCE to c. 50 CE. The most prolific Jewish author of the period and a wealthy leader of the Alexandrian community, who led the embassy to Caligula in 39-40 CE. His surviving work runs to dozens of treatises reading the Torah allegorically through Middle Platonic and Stoic philosophy, in which Abraham's journey becomes the soul's ascent and the literal sense, which Philo insists must still be observed, carries a philosophical meaning beneath it. His use of the Logos as the intermediary through which God acts on the world had considerable influence on later Christian theology. Not scripture in any tradition and not reproduced here on grounds of length; the complete Yonge translation of 1854-1855 is in the public domain and freely available.
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