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Philosophical Haiku

Philo of Alexandria (c.20BCE-c.50CE)

by Terence Green

Wisdom in Logos
God’s handmaid, philosophy
Sacred, Nature speaks

Philo was the leading Jewish philosopher of the Hellenistic Age. A prominent member of the Jewish community of Alexandria, he was an able spokesman on behalf of his people, and was brave enough to represent them before that blood-thirsty psychopath, the Roman Emperor Caligula.

Much of Philo’s philosophical work centred on responding to Moses as a divinely inspired sage. Tradition has it that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.

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