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- Title Pages
- For my mother and father: Birgit and Robert
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- I Philo's ‘Therapeutae’ Reconsidered
- 1 On Method
- 2 Philo's <i>De Vita Contemplativa</i> in Historical Context
- 3 Identity: The Name ‘Therapeutae’ and the Essenes
- 4 Placements: The Geographical and Social Locations of the Mareotic Group
- 5 The Philosophia of Ioudaismos
- 6 Allegory and Asceticism
- 7 A Solar Calendar
- 8 Paradigms of ‘Women’ in Discourses on Philosophia
- 9 Women and Sex in De Vita Contemplativa
- 10 Gendered Space
- 11 Gender Blenders: Moses, Miriam, and Music
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Partial Translation of Philo of Alexandria, De Vita Contemplativa
- Appendix 2 <i>De Migratione Abrahami</i> 86–96
- Appendix 3 Epitome of Chaeremon the Stoic ‘On the Egyptian Priests’
- Bibliography
- Index of Greek Terms<sup>*</sup>
- General Index
(p.v) For my mother and father: Birgit and Robert (p.vi)
(p.v) For my mother and father: Birgit and Robert (p.vi)
- Source:
- Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- For my mother and father: Birgit and Robert
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- I Philo's ‘Therapeutae’ Reconsidered
- 1 On Method
- 2 Philo's <i>De Vita Contemplativa</i> in Historical Context
- 3 Identity: The Name ‘Therapeutae’ and the Essenes
- 4 Placements: The Geographical and Social Locations of the Mareotic Group
- 5 The Philosophia of Ioudaismos
- 6 Allegory and Asceticism
- 7 A Solar Calendar
- 8 Paradigms of ‘Women’ in Discourses on Philosophia
- 9 Women and Sex in De Vita Contemplativa
- 10 Gendered Space
- 11 Gender Blenders: Moses, Miriam, and Music
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Partial Translation of Philo of Alexandria, De Vita Contemplativa
- Appendix 2 <i>De Migratione Abrahami</i> 86–96
- Appendix 3 Epitome of Chaeremon the Stoic ‘On the Egyptian Priests’
- Bibliography
- Index of Greek Terms<sup>*</sup>
- General Index
