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  • Other negative aspects of her character were suggested by Philo (in Legum allegoriae; De opificio mundi).

    Biblical Women in World and Hebrew Literature. 2009

  • On the Creation of the W.rld (De opificio mundi), ed.W. Reichardt, Leipzig: Teubner, 1897.

    John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • The De opificio mundi has received some attention from historians of science, because Philoponus suggests at one point (I 12) that the movement of the heavens could be explained by a ˜motive force™ impressed on the celestial bodies by God at the time of creation.

    John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • Perhaps some fifteen years (the date is disputed) after his attack on Aristotle on the eternity of the world, Philoponus published a commentary on the biblical creation story, On the Creation of the World (De opificio mundi), which is his only theological work extant in Greek.

    John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • Fladerer, L. (1999) Johannes Philoponos "De opificio mundi".

    John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • Scholten, C. (1996) Antike Naturphilosophie und christliche Kosmologie in der Schrift "De opificio mundi" des Johannes Philoponos.

    John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • He draws heavily on Augustine's commentaries on Genesis, especially De Genesi ad litteram, as well as Ambrose's De Paradiso and Gregory of Nyssa's De hominis opificio.

    John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004

  • Story (De opificio mundi), Philo stresses that the divine image in man is the mind.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • De opificio hominis referred to above, and, most significantly, of the writings of the fifth-century Greek theologian who is known as (Pseudo -) Dionysius the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • The same Philo who credited the Chaldeans with discovering cosmic harmony wrote a lengthy commen - tary on the six days of Creation (De opificio mundi) with constant allusions to Pythagorean theories, thus stressing what was for him the common parentage of

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968

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