Lawrence H. Schiffman has written a series of blog posts on how various figures of the Second Temple period explained Torah’s commandments. There are three posts thus far:
– Philo
– Josephus
It seems that there will be more entries, so bookmark the page. It’s fascinating to see people have explained some of the more puzzling parts of Scripture.
the archives near Emmaus 
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