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Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria - Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered (Paperback, New Ed)
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Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria - Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.
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