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- Title Pages
- For my mother and father: Birgit and Robert
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
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I Philo's ‘Therapeutae’ Reconsidered -
1 On Method -
2 Philo's De Vita Contemplativa 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
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Appendix I Partial Translation of Philo of Alexandria, De Vita Contemplativa -
Appendix 2 De Migratione Abrahami 86–96 -
Appendix 3 Epitome of Chaeremon the Stoic ‘On the Egyptian Priests’ - Bibliography
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Index of Greek Terms
* - 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 De Vita Contemplativa 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 De Migratione Abrahami 86–96 -
Appendix 3 Epitome of Chaeremon the Stoic ‘On the Egyptian Priests’ - Bibliography
-
Index of Greek Terms
* - General Index
