Philon von Alexandria

Philo of Alexandria was the most important Jewish Hellenistic philosopher and left behind a voluminous oeuvre. Maren R. Niehoff's monograph reconstructs for the first time his intellectual development from his first steps as a Bible interpreter in the Jewish community of Egypt to his role as the head of the Jewish embassy to Gaius Caligula. The original English edition was awarded the 2019 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines at the Hebrew University and was Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Prize of the Association of Jewish Studies.

Claus-Jürgen Thornton (Übersetzt von)
Dr. theol., leitet den Verlag der Weltreligionen im Insel Verlag.
Eva Tyrell (Übersetzt von)
Dr. theol. Judaistik (Bern) bzw. PhD (Tel Aviv); arbeitet am Stadtarchiv München und übersetzt hebräische Erzählungen.
Maren R. Niehoff (Von (Autor))
is the Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.