Mendelson, Alan. “Two Glimpses of Philo in Modern English Literature:
Works by Charles Kingsley and Francis Warner,” The Studia Philonica
Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism Vol. III (Atlanta, GA: Scholars
Press, 1991): 328-343.
Mendelson examines the treatment of Philo and his views in Kingsley’s historical
novel Hypatia and in his series of lectures Alexandria and Her
Schools delivered at Edinburgh’s Philosophical Institution in 1854.
Mendelson’s analysis also extends to Kingsley’s treatment of the Jews and
Judaism. Both of the latter, writes Mendelson, are dealt with in very pejorative
terms, with Kingsley consistently displaying anti-Jewish rancour and bigotry.
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