Author - Jared W. Saltz

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Jared W. Saltz is a PhD candidate from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati, OH) and on the Biblical Studies Faculty at Florida College (Temple Terrace, FL). His current research focusses on Hecataeus of Abdera. He is a happy husband and delighted father of two precious girls (5 and 2).

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Scholarship Theology

Vice, Virtue, and a Double Tree Trunk: Comparing Philo and the Stoics on Moral Formation

Jared W. SaltzMay 19, 2017

How does Philo, the ancient Jewish philosopher, conceive of the origin of evil in each individual person compared to the Stoic understanding in which he operated? A excellent point of comparison is Philo’s use of a “double trunk” or “double branch”...

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