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Philo of Alexandria, De Vita Mosis: Text and Context (Continuation)

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Own resources project
Duration at the University of Münster: 01/09/2015 - 31/08/2016

Description

Philo's treatise "On the Life of Moses" (De Vita Mosis), which is a key to our understanding of Philo, will be re-edited, introduced, translated, and commented upon by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, SNF) and is led by Professor René Bloch, University of Berne. This is the second funding period.

Keywords: Allegory; Hebrew Language; Origins of Evil; Ancient Jewish Philosophy; Moses; Septuagint; Philo of Alexandria; De Vita Mosis; Hellenistic Judaism; Biography
Website of the project: http://p3.snf.ch/Project-159831

Project management at the University of Münster

Doering, Lutz
Professorship of New Testament and Ancient Judaism (Prof. Doering)

Project partners outside the University of Münster

  • Ther Hebrew University uf Jerusalem (HUJI)Israel
  • University of Bern (UBERN)Switzerland
  • University of Munich (LMU)Germany
  • University of LausanneSwitzerland