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The Apostolic Age · c. AD 30–45

On the Life of Moses

De Vita Mosis

Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50

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What it is

Two books making Moses king, lawgiver, priest, and prophet at once, written plainly enough for readers who had never opened the Pentateuch, and including the story of how the Seventy produced identical translations in separate cells.

Why it lasted

The most widely read Jewish book in the early church after the Septuagint itself, and the direct model for Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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