The History of Judaism

The lack of creeds within judaism until the middle ages has led some historians to claim that jews were more interested in orthopraxy than orthodoxy. The practice of judaism also varied hugely, as can be seen most clearly from a remarkable passage found in the writings of the jewish philosopher philo. Philo devoted his religious writings to a search for deep symbolic meanings in the laws and narratives of the pentateuch. In one passage he discussed the allegorical meaning of the genesis, story of the travels of abraham from haran to canaan. Pilo's works were preserved in later centuries, not by jews, but by christians who similarly sought alleg