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Cristian Bădiliță
Cristian Bădiliță (born March 27, 1968) is a theologian, essayist, translator and contemporary Romanian poet. Biography He was born in Săveni, Botoșani County, where he lived until the age of 14. He settled afterwards in Botoșani, where he studied at the A. T. Laurian High School. His debut was in 1982 when he published his first poems in '' Athenaeum'' magazine. In 1986 he had a second literary debut, again with poetry, in ''Chronicle'', an important cultural magazine in Iași. After his traumatic experience in the communist compulsory military service (narrated later on in ''The Gordian Knot''), Bădiliță followed for two years the courses of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest, having as mentors personalities such as , Florea Fugaru, , and Pan M. Vizirescu, the last survivor of the Gândirea magazine. In 1990 he transferred to the Classical Languages department, where he met the scholar Petru Creția. Their friendship resulted in an essay on the Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Săveni
Săveni () is a small town located in Botoșani County in the Western Moldavia region in northeastern Romania. The town administers five villages: Bodeasa, Bozieni, Chișcăreni, Petricani, and Sat Nou. Near Săveni, at , there is a tall guyed mast for FM-/TV-broadcasting. The town features two Orthodox churches, the Saint Nicholas Church and the Saint George Church. The town's main educational centers are the "Școala Gimnazială Nr.1 Săveni" elementary and middle school, with an old decrepit building from the early 1900' which functioned as a Jewish school, and the "Liceul Teoretic Dr. Mihai Ciucă", which is an elementary and high school. The "Spitalul Orășenesc Săveni" is the local hospital. The old cinema "Patria" was recently rehabilitated with funds and has become a modern "Casă de Cultură". There is an archaeology museum located in the town. Natives * Cristian Bădiliță (born 1968), theologian and essayist * Dan Caspi (1945–2017), Israeli academic *Mihai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philon Of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called , was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. The only event in Philo's life that can be decisively dated is his representation of the Alexandrian Jews in a delegation to the Roman emperor Caligula in 40 CE following civil strife between the Jewish and Greek communities of Alexandria. Philo was a leading writer of the Hellenistic Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt. He wrote expansively in Koine Greek on philosophy, politics, and religion in his time; specifically, he explored the connections between Greek Platonic philosophy and late Second Temple Judaism. For example, he maintained that the Greek-language Septuagint and the Jewish law still being developed by the rabbis of the period together serve as a blueprint for the pursuit of individual enlightenment. Philo's deployment of allegory to harmonize Jewish scripture, mainly the Torah, with Greek philosophy was the first documented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
