Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
  • HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM
  • 1. HellenisticJewish Philosophy-- PART TWO
  • BEN SIRA
  • 2. Theodicy in Ben Sira and Stoic Philosophy-- 3. Freedom and Determinism in Greek Philosophy and Jewish Hellenistic Wisdom-- PART THREE
  • THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
  • 4. The Book of Wisdom's Theory of Cosmogony-- 5. Creation Ex Nihilo Revisited: A Reply toJonathan Goldstein
  • 6. Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon
  • 7. The Sage as Mystic in the Wisdom of Solomon-- PART FOUR
  • PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA
  • 8. Philo's Theory of Eternal Creation: Prov. 1.6-9
  • 9. Theodicy and Creation
  • 10. Freedom and Determinism in Philo of Alexandria-- 11. Was Philo a Mystic?-- 12. Sage and Super-Sage in Philo of Alexandria
  • 13. Judaism and Hellenism: Hidden tensions in Philo's thought
  • 14. Philo and the Rabbis on Sex and the Body-- Index of Ancient Authors and Texts-- Index of Modern Authors.