H A Wolfson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H A Wolfson |
| GIVEN NAMES | H A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfson |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFSON H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Working within broken systems”
Two Comments regarding the Plurality of Worlds in Jewish Sources
The Philonic God of Revelation and His Latter-Day Deniers
Philo, professionally, was not a teacher of philosophy. He was a preacher, a preacher on biblical topics, who dispensed his philosophic thoughts in the form of sermons. And because he was not professionally a teacher of philosophy, some modern students of his works say that he was not a philosopher. For nowadays, as we all know, to be called philosopher one must be ordained and one must be hired to teach philosophy and one must also learn to disc…
The Pre-Existent Angel of the Magharians and al-Nahāwandī
Negative Attributes in the Church Fathers and the Gnostic Basilides
By the time the Fathers of the Church began to offer negation as a solution of the problem of divine attributes, the theory of negative attributes had already been dealt with by Philo, Albinus, and Plotinus. All three of them, starting with the assumption that God is ineffable, found that one way of describing God was by means of negative attributes. In their treatment of this type of attributes, however, there is a difference between Philo on th…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America
The Muslim Attributes and the Christian Trinity
Already in the first part of the eighth century, as one may judge from the reports of teachings to which Wāṣil (d. 748) was opposed, there arose in Islam the belief that certain terms which are attributed to God in the Koran stand for real incorporeal beings which exist in God from eternity. There is nothing in the Koran to warrant such a belief. Nor is there any warrant that at that early stage in the history of Islam the belief originated spont…
Albinus and Plotinus on Divine Attributes
On two previous occasions I tried to show how neither Plato nor Aristotle held that God was unknowable, ineffable, and unnameable, how the tentative objections against the unknowability of the ideas raised in the Parmenides and Sophist are answered by Aristotle, how in the extant literature of Greek philosophy prior to Philo there is no conception of a God who is unknowable and unnameable and ineffable, how Philo arrived at the conception of an u…
Clement of Alexandria on The Generation of The Logos
At the time of Clement of Alexandria there existed two theories with regard to the generation of the Logos. They may be described as the twofold stage theory and the single stage theory. According to the twofold stage theory, which reflects a similar conception in Philo,1 the Logos at first existed from eternity in God and then, prior to the creation of the world, it was generated from the essence of God as a distinct personal being. Representati…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy
Critical Notes
Infinite and Privative Judgments in Aristotle, Averroes, and Kant
Arabic and Hebrew Terms for Matter and Element with Especial Reference to Saadia
On the Septuagint Use of to Hagion for the Temple
Notes on Proverbs 22.10 and Psalms of Solomon 17.48
The Kalam Problem of Nonexistence and Saadia's Second Theory of Creation
Synedrion in Greek Jewish Literature and Philo
Atomism in Saadia
Colcodea, קולקודיא
Goichon's Three Books on Avicenna's Philosophy
Spinoza dans les Pays Neerlandais de la Seconde Moitie du XVIIe Siecle
Spinoza, Descartes and Maimonides
Spinoza, Descartes and Maimonides
Spinoza dans les Pays Neerlandais de la Seconde Moitie du XVIIe Siecle
Goichon's Three Books on Avicenna's Philosophy
Colcodea, קולקודיא
Notes on Proverbs 22.10 and Psalms of Solomon 17.48
The Kalam Problem of Nonexistence and Saadia's Second Theory of Creation
Synedrion in Greek Jewish Literature and Philo
Atomism in Saadia
Infinite and Privative Judgments in Aristotle, Averroes, and Kant
Arabic and Hebrew Terms for Matter and Element with Especial Reference to Saadia
On the Septuagint Use of to Hagion for the Temple
Critical Notes
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy
Clement of Alexandria on The Generation of The Logos
At the time of Clement of Alexandria there existed two theories with regard to the generation of the Logos. They may be described as the twofold stage theory and the single stage theory. According to the twofold stage theory, which reflects a similar conception in Philo,1 the Logos at first existed from eternity in God and then, prior to the creation of the world, it was generated from the essence of God as a distinct personal being. Representati…
Albinus and Plotinus on Divine Attributes
On two previous occasions I tried to show how neither Plato nor Aristotle held that God was unknowable, ineffable, and unnameable, how the tentative objections against the unknowability of the ideas raised in the Parmenides and Sophist are answered by Aristotle, how in the extant literature of Greek philosophy prior to Philo there is no conception of a God who is unknowable and unnameable and ineffable, how Philo arrived at the conception of an u…
The Muslim Attributes and the Christian Trinity
Already in the first part of the eighth century, as one may judge from the reports of teachings to which Wāṣil (d. 748) was opposed, there arose in Islam the belief that certain terms which are attributed to God in the Koran stand for real incorporeal beings which exist in God from eternity. There is nothing in the Koran to warrant such a belief. Nor is there any warrant that at that early stage in the history of Islam the belief originated spont…
Negative Attributes in the Church Fathers and the Gnostic Basilides
By the time the Fathers of the Church began to offer negation as a solution of the problem of divine attributes, the theory of negative attributes had already been dealt with by Philo, Albinus, and Plotinus. All three of them, starting with the assumption that God is ineffable, found that one way of describing God was by means of negative attributes. In their treatment of this type of attributes, however, there is a difference between Philo on th…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America
The Philonic God of Revelation and His Latter-Day Deniers
Philo, professionally, was not a teacher of philosophy. He was a preacher, a preacher on biblical topics, who dispensed his philosophic thoughts in the form of sermons. And because he was not professionally a teacher of philosophy, some modern students of his works say that he was not a philosopher. For nowadays, as we all know, to be called philosopher one must be ordained and one must be hired to teach philosophy and one must also learn to disc…
The Pre-Existent Angel of the Magharians and al-Nahāwandī
Two Comments regarding the Plurality of Worlds in Jewish Sources
Working within broken systems”
Philosophy (19 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Theology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (8 works) · Classics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works)