Tag: Philo

Abraham the Astronomer Part 2

In the centuries before the Talmudic rabbis, there were numerous other ancient Jewish writers who also connected Abraham to astronomy…

Shavuot, Philo, Astronomy and Pythagoreans

The first century CE Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, in glowing terms, describes the holiday of Shavuot and its underlying reasons based on mathematics – and astronomy!