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The first-century ascetic Jewish philosophers known as the 'Therapeutae', described in Philo's treatise De Vita Contemplativa, have often been considered in comparison with early Christians, the Essenes, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study, which includes a new translation of De Vita Contemplativa, focuses particularly on issues of historical method, rhetoric, women, and gender, and comes to new conclusions about the nature of the group and its relationship with the allegorical school of exegesis in Alexandria. Joan E. Taylor argues that the group represents the tip of an iceberg in terms of ascetic practices and allegorical exegesis, and that the women described point to the presence of other Jewish women philosophers in Alexandria in the first century CE. Members of the group were 'extreme allegorizers' in following a distinctive calendar, not maintaining usual Jewish praxis, and concentrating their focus on attaining a trance-like state in which a vision of God's light was experienced. Their special 'feast' was configured in terms of service at a Temple, in which both men and women were priestly attendants of God.

Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist's thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith.

B> This scholarly work addresses the complex issues of moral education as they arise in school settings. It grapples with the relationship between education and moral action as confronted by teachers, students, and administrators. The Moral Stake in Education encourages educators to understand the theoretical debates now raging and the philosophical positions on which they are based. It asks them to consider their own viewpoints as they relate to classroom situations and to their own teaching. Educators, or others interested in the Educational system.

This interdisciplinary and intercultural anthology approaches some fundamental philosophical questions with a focus on the "self" -- and its discovery, limitations, possibilities, and contexts. Numerous readings and a wide variety of voices include Africans, Natives, Hispanic Americans, religious traditions outside dominant Christian philosophies, and European and Asian traditions. These narratives, poetry selections, and discursive arguments either reinforce or challenge each other and traditional thoughts and beliefs -- about human nature, the natural world, race and gender, the good life, society, culture and morality, relationships with others, and religion. For risk-takers who are not afraid to question popular beliefs in order to discover which ones are true to his or her own self.

En un mundo cada vez más especializado, se hace necesario romper con el tópico de que la ciencia y las humanidades se oponen entre sí e incluso son radicalmente distintas en su naturaleza y función. Plenamente arraigadas en la sociedad y en el avance del conocimiento, no hay investigación sin interpretación, ni interpretación sin apoyo científico y sin un constante debate con el saber empírico. Desde la medicina, la biología, la filosofía, la economía, el derecho, la física o la historiografía, entre otras disciplinas, se tratan en la presente obra cuestiones tan fundamentales como necesarias para nuestro progreso como sociedad. Mediante las aportaciones de prestigiosos especialistas y aunando sus distintas voces, Humanidades e investigación científica se propone reforzar los vínculos entre ciencia y humanismo, con la firme convicción de que solo así será posible afrontar los grandes retos globales de la sociedad actual. La cultura científica y la humanística entran en debate, aquí, y abren camino con paso firme hacia un futuro alentador.