Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's 'Therapeutae' ReconsideredOUP Oxford, 20.11.2003 - 434 Seiten The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study, which includes a new translation of De Vita Contemplativa, focuses particularly on issues of historical method, rhetoric, women, and gender, and comes to new conclusions about the nature of the group and its relationship with the allegorical school of exegesis in Alexandria. Joan E. Taylor argues that the group represents the tip of an iceberg in terms of ascetic practices and allegorical exegesis, and that the women described point to the presence of other Jewish women philosophers in Alexandria in the first century CE. Members of the group were 'extreme allegorizers' in following a distinctive calendar, not maintaining usual Jewish praxis, and concentrating their focus on attaining a trance-like state in which a vision of God's light was experienced. Their special 'feast' was configured in terms of service at a Temple, in which both men and women were priestly attendants of God. |
Inhalt
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The Name Therapeutae and the Essenes | 54 |
The Geographical and Social Locations | 74 |
The Philosophia of Ioudaismos | 105 |
Allegory and Asceticism | 126 |
A Solar Calendar | 154 |
Paradigms of Women in Discourses on Philosophia | 173 |
Gendered Space | 265 |
Moses Miriam and Music | 311 |
Conclusion | 341 |
Partial translation of Philo of Alexandria | 349 |
De Migratione Abrahami 8696 Francis | 359 |
Bibliography | 365 |
Index of Greek Terms | 391 |
Women and Sex in De Vita Contemplativa | 227 |
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Seite xiv - Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies JQR Jewish Quarterly Review...
Seite 154 - When thou showest thyself at morning every day, under thy majesty, though the day be brief, Thou traversest a journey of leagues, Even millions and hundred-thousands of time. Every day is under thee.
Seite 326 - Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house. 'With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Seite 16 - Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).
Seite 41 - IX, p. 347. subject peoples should abide by their own customs and not be compelled to violate the religion of their fathers; and learning that the Alexandrians rose up in insurrection against the Jews in their midst in the time of Gaius Caesar, who through his great folly and madness humiliated the Jews because they refused to transgress the religion of their fathers by addressing him as a god...
Seite 173 - ... nourish her children at her own breast, and to serve her husband with her own hands, and willing to do things which some would consider no better than slaves' work. Would not such a woman be a great help to the man who married her, an ornament to her relatives, and a good example for all who know her? Yes, but I assure you, some will say, that women who associate with philosophers are bound to be arrogant for the most part and presumptuous, in that abandoning their own households and turning...
Seite 228 - Bernadette J. Brooten, Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 5, and the detailed, convincing critique of her interpretation of Arethas's usage by Cameron, "Love (and Marriage) between Women,
Seite 357 - There are some who, regarding laws in their literal sense in the light of symbols of matters belonging to the intellect, are over punctilious about the latter, while treating the former with easy-going neglect. Such men I for my part should blame for handling the matter in too easy and off-hand a manner: they ought to have given careful attention to both aims...
Seite 359 - 6. Chaeremon the Stoic tells in his exposé about the Egyptian priests, who, he says, were considered also as philosophers among the Egyptians, that they chose the temples as the place to philosophize2.
Seite 143 - Why, we shall be ignoring the sanctity of the Temple and a thousand other things, if we are going to pay heed to nothing except what is shown us by the inner meaning of things.