Philo
The philo is a favorable attitude toward Jews because of their religion, the qualities attributed collectively to the Jews, and their status as God's chosen people according to different religions from the Bible.
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Attempts to define
The definition of "philo" is quite problematic, it generates a set of difficult issues: who we talking about the Jews? Is it a religion? A people? Rudolph M. Loewenstein History Despite the dismissive way in which the Jewish community was often seen in the ancient world because of their refusal to abandon their God and to revere the emperor as a god, the Jews had a certain "force of attraction" . Already in the third century BC. AD , some wise admired their wisdom and culture. You can find the notes that Jews would adopt the same four principal virtues that were popular in the ancient Greek and Greco-Roman (the wisdom , the courage , the moderation and justice , the first of them was particularly related their community). According to historians of antiquity, Pythagoras was a great admirer of Judaism, and adopted some tenets of Jewish law in his philosophy . Historian Megasthenes and philosopher Theophrastus "speak of the Jews
In another sense, the Polish king, Casimir III of Poland and Casimir IV Jagiello , are now regarded as philo, for having brought many Jews in their country. According to Edelstein, their support of the Jewish presence in Poland was not motivated, as is usually believed, for economic reasons, because the importance of the latter was relatively low nationally.
Alain Edelstein maintains that the survival of Jews in Europe is due in large part to philo, as well as the empowerment of this community - the Middle Ages was marked by the struggle for the Jewish presence in Christian Europe, and modern philo helped Jews find themselves in Europe in the nineteenth century.
A particular form of philo is developed by evangelical Christians Americans: they think the return of the Jewish people in Judea is the prelude to his conversion to Christianity and the return of Christ on Earth. The conversion of Jews to Christianity only take place at the site where Jesus Christ lived, the Christian conversion that would transfer the status of the chosen people.
Some (Leon Wieselter), the philo is hardly different from the anti-Semitism , as it continues to give the Jews a central role in world history.
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Bibliography
- Alain Edelstein , An Unacknowledged Harmony Philosemitism & the Survival of European Jewry, Greenwood Press, London, 1982.
- Hannah Arendt , The Origins of Totalitarianism (Original ed: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979 ).
- Louis H. Feldman , Jew & Gentle in the Ancient World, chapter "The Attractions of the Jews: the Cardinal Virtuess", Princeton University Press, 1992.
- Artur Sandauer W sytuacji pisarz polskiego XX wieku w pochodzenia ydowskiego (Rzecz, ktor denies ja byl powinienem napisa ...) Czytelnik, 1982.
- Olivier Rota offers a different approach to philo in:
Beyond the framework of philo. The ecumenical vision of Paul Demannez appeared in Jewish Archives, the first half of 2007, No. 40 / 1, pp.117-130.
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