Jewish Women Philosophers of First-century Alexandria: Philo's "Therapeutae" Reconsidered (Hardback)
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Short Description for Jewish Women Philosophers of First-century Alexandria The 'Therapeutae' were a Jewish group of ascetic philosophers who lived outside Alexandria in the middle of the first century CE. This study focuses on issues of history, rhetoric, women, and gender in a wide exploration of the group, about the 'Therapeutae' and their relationship with the Jewish allegorical school of exegesis in Alexandria.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 29 January 2004
- Format: Hardback 434 pages
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- Categories: Gender Studies: Women | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500 | Non-Western Philosophy | Judaism | Tribal Religions
- ISBN 13: 9780199259618 ISBN 10: 0199259615
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Full description for Jewish Women Philosophers of First-century Alexandria
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.
