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The Therapeutae by Lake Mareotis

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A community of Jewish contemplatives, men and women, who lived, Philo says, in houses on a low hill above Lake Mareotis, reading scripture allegorically six days a week and meeting on the seventh; every seventh week they kept an all-night vigil of hymns.

The evidence: Philo's On the Contemplative Life only. Some scholars think the account idealised; no remains are known.

This place through time

  1. c. 20 BCE–50 CE · Philo reads Moses with Plato Known: attested

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Sources (2)
  • Philo, On the Contemplative Life 21–90
  • A. Kamesar (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philo (Cambridge, 2009)