The Jewish Religious Text and the Question of Interpretation Symbolic Reading versus Verbatim Reading Fillon Alexandrian as a Model

Abstract

This research paper aims to study the method of symbolic interpretation and reading the Jewish
religious text in the Hellenistic era, through one of the most important philosophers and theologians
of the School of Alexandria, Philon of Alexandria, who worked on symbolically interpreting the
books of the Torah, and from this our study came as an attempt to trace the characteristics of the
theory of metaphorical interpretation as formulated by Fillon As well as knowing the extent to
which he was influenced in formulating this theory by his Jewish environment on the one hand in
reading the sacred text (the Torah), and by Greek philosophy on the other hand, which in turn knew
the metaphor through its philosophical schools of Stoicism, Pythagoreanism and others, in addition
to our approach to symbolic interpretation of Philon, the aim of which came to know What he
played in bringing about the reconciliation between philosophy and religion