Symbolism of the Different Sacrifices
The general sacrifices in the form of burnt-offerings performed on behalf of the nation or, to speak more correctly, on behalf of the human race, have now been described to the best of my ability. But these burnt-offerings are accompanied on each day of a feast by the sacrifice of a kid called the sin-offering offered for the remission of sins, its…
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Symbolism of the Daily Offerings
Who Is the Heir of Divine Things 174, 196–200
To pass to a different matter, you find the same division into equal parts in the permanent sacrifices, both in the oblation of fine flour…
The Proper Attitude for Sacrifice
Against Apion 2.195–197
We offer sacrifices not for the sake of our own self-serving drunkenness—for such excesses are not in accordance with the will of God—but in the spirit of sobriety. And at the time of these sacrifices…
Philo on the Showbread
On the Special Laws 1.172–175
But on each seventh day loaves are exposed on the holy table equal in number to the months of the year in two layers of six each, each layer corresponding to the equinoxes. For there are two equinoxes…
The Mishnah on the Showbread
m. MenaḤot 11:5–9
5. The table was ten [handbreadths] in length and five [handbreadths] in width. The showbread was ten [handbreadths] in length and five [handbreadths] in width. [The priest] would place the length [of…
The Half Shekel as Ransom for the Soul
Who Is the Heir of Divine Things 186
And was not the consecrated didrachmon portioned out on the same principle? We are meant to consecrate one half of it, the drachma, and pay it as ransom for our own soul (Ex. xxx. 12, 13), which God…
Philo on the Jews’ Permission to Collect the Temple Tax
On the Embassy to Gaius 314–316
But there is one letter which I subjoin here to convince you, my lord and master, sent by Gaius Norbanus Flaccus declaring what Caesar had written to him. Here is a transcript of this letter. ‘Gaius…