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van der Horst Pieter Willem, « Philo and the Problem of God’s Emotions », Études platoniciennes, ID : 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.636
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Philo being the Platonist he is, it is to be expected that the biblical notion of a God who has strong emotions would constitute a great problem to him. As is well-known, the two cultural traditions that merge in his religious philosophy, the Biblical and Jewish tradition on the one hand and the Greek philosophical on the other, speak a widely different language as far as the emotions of God or the gods is concerned. Philo’s ingenuity is indeed great enough to find a solution of sorts to this...