Septuagint, Hellenistic development marked by, 25;
Philo's version of origin of, 26;
celebrations in honor of, 27;
infusion of Greek philosophic ideas into, 28;
Christianizing influence of, 29;
value of, to the cultured Gentile, 33;
replaced by new Greek version of Old Testament, 224.
Solomon, Wisdom of, written at Alexandria, 31.
_Specific Laws, The_, description of, 83;
socialism of Bible emphasized in, 86.
Spinoza, his ideal of life, 53;
compared with Philo's, 73, 134, 163, 239;
on Jewish thought, 137;
influenced by Philo, 237 ff.;
approaches Bible from critical standpoint, 239.
Stoics, the chief Anti-Semites, 63;
Philo replies to attacks of, 64, 95;
in conflict with Jews at Alexandria, 94;
beliefs of, 64, 94, 116, 176;
view of God compared with that of Philo, 185.
Synagogues,
at Alexandria, 16, 37.
Tiberius Alexander,
nephew of Philo, 71.
Tradition, Jewish,
at Alexandria, 27;
Philo and Jewish, 199 ff.
Zealots, flight of,
to Alexandria, 71.
* * * * *
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: Comp. Leviticus Rabba 13.]
[Footnote 2: Comp. Josephus, Ant. IX. 1.]
[Footnote 3: Sukkah 51^{b}.]
[Footnote 4: Quoted by Josephus, Ant. XIV. 7.]
[Footnote 5: Ant. XII. 5, 9, XX. 10.]
[Footnote 6: Josephus, _Bell. Jud._ VII. 10.]
[Footnote 7: Comp. the passages in the "Antiquities" above and the
_Bell. Jud._ V. 5.]
[Footnote 8: Menahot 109, Abodah Zarah 52^{b}.]
[Footnote 9: _De Leg._ II. 578.]
[Footnote 10: Comp. _De Mon._ I. 5.]
[Footnote 11: Dr. Hirseh, in The Jews' College Jubilee Volume, p.39.]
[Footnote 12: Menahot 119.]
[Footnote 13: Comp. Ant. XIV. 14-16.]
[Footnote 14: Ant. XVI. 7.]
[Footnote 15: Philo, _In Flacc._ 6.]
[Footnote 16: _C. Apion._ II. 5.]
[Footnote 17: I have used the word anti-Semite because, though the
hatred at Alexandria was not racial, but national, it has now become
synonymous with Jew-hater generally.]
[Footnote 18: Quoted in _C. Apion_. I. 22.]
[Footnote 19: _De V. Mos_. II. 6, 7.]
[Footnote 20: See p. 22, above.]
[Footnote 21: Preface to Ecclesiasticus.]
[Footnote 22: Tract. Soferim I. 7.]
[Footnote 23: Tanhuma [Hebrew: ki tsha]]
[Footnote 24: See p. 23, above.]
[Footnote 25: _Orac. Sib_., ed. Alexandre, III. 8.]
[Footnote 26: _Ibid._, III. 195.]
[Footnote 27: Comp. Strabo, Frag. 6, Didot.]
[Footnote 28: _De Post.C._ 24.]
[Footnote 29: _De V. Mos_. II. 28.]
[Footnote 30: Comp. _De Decal_. 20.]
[Footnote 31: Comp. Yer. Berakot 24c.]
[Footnote 32: _Praep. Evang_. VIII. 10, XIII. 12.]
[Footnote 33: Comp. _De Abr_. 15 and 37, _De Jos_. II. 63, _De Spec.
Leg._ III. 32, _De Migr_. 89.]
[Footnote 34: _Quod Deus_ 11, _De Abr._ 36.]
[Footnote 35: Comp. Acts of the Apostles VI. 9, and Tosef. Meg. III.
6.]
[Footnote 36: Yoma 83^{a}.]
[Footnote 37: _Bell. Jud._ V. 5.]
[Footnote 38: Comp. Niddah 69^{b}, Sotah 47^{a}.]
[Footnote 39: "Heroes and Hero-Worship," ch. 3.]
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