文档介绍：HARVARD SEMITIC SERIES, 11
PHILO AND THE ORAL LAW
The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law
in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah
BY
SAMUEL BELKIN
Assistant Professor of Hellenistic and
Rabbinic Literature, Yeshiva College
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
HARVARD SEMITIC SERIES
VOLUME XI
MITTEE
HARRY AUSTRYN WOLFSON, WILLIAM THOMSON,
ROBERT HENRY PFEIFFER
PHILO AND THE ORAL LAW
LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
PHILO AND THE ORAL LAW
The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law
in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah
BY
SAMUEL BELKIN
Assistant Professor of Hellenistic and
Rabbinic Literature, Yeshiva College
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1940
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MRS. IRA J. SOBOL
In Gratitude
PREFACE
PHILO JUDAEUS of Alexandria has been and still is a subject
of profound study and research. In the exhaustive bibliogra­
phy of Philo published by L. Goodhart and E. R. Goodenough
(panying the latter's monograph, The Politics of Philo
Judaeus), over sixteen hundred items are listed as dealing with
the works of Philo, an indication of the great interest which
the Alexandrian Jewish sage has exercised upon human
thought throughout the ages. Philo the philosopher, the mys­
tic, the allegorist, the theologian, the forerunner of Christian­
ity, the statesman, the jurist, the Stoic, the Neo-Pythagorean,
the gnostic, the man, the stylist — all these subjects are well
treated in numerous works by oustanding scholars. Very little
has been said, however, of Philo the master of Jewish law.
Philo has been studied with great interest, but Judaeus has
been left unnoticed. While examination has been made of the
variety of non-Jewish sources upon which Philo drew for his
interpretation of Judaism, little