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DR. HOROVITZ' essay is the outcome of his thesis approved for the degree of philosophy in the University of Marburg. Its purpose is to focus the rays of light which close exegesis of the Timaeus throws upon the cosmogonic scheme wherein Philo effected the synthesis of Plato and Moses. While recognising the Stoic and Neopythagorean elements in Philo's teaching, Dr. Horovitz has little difficulty in showing that in both style and matter the dominant influence was Plato's. It is to the analysis, then, of Plato's creation-myth that we must turn if we would understand Philo with his enormous influence on the development of the doctrine of the Logos in Christian literature.
Untersuchungen über Philons und Platons Lehre von der Weltschöpfung.
Von Jakob Horovitz Pp. xiii + 124. (Marburg: N. G. Elwart, 1900.)
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B., H. Untersuchungen über Philons und Platons Lehre von der Weltschöpfung . Nature 62, 494 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062494a0
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