I agree as well, I like Anaxagoras, and the Stoics concept of "logos". I am not a fan of Plato's, nor am I a fan of Aristotle's theorum. Philo made a good attempt to combine both rationals of Anaxagoras, and the Stoics concept of "logos" into "thought and speech".
In the Targums, which were popular interpretations or paraphrases of the Old Testament Scripture, there was a tendency to avoid anthropomorphic terms or such expressions as involved a too internal conception of God’s nature and manifestation.
In the Targums, the three doctrines of the Word, the Angel (message), and Wisdom are introduced as mediating factors between God and the world.
In particular the chasm between the Divine and human is bridged over by the use of such terms as me’mera’ ("word") and shekhinah ("glory").
The me’mera proceeds from God, and is His messenger in Nature and history.
In the Old Testament, and particularly, in the Targums or Jewish paraphrases, the "Word" is constantly spoken of as the efficient instrument of Divine action; and the "Word of God" had come to be used in a personal way as almost identical with God Himself.
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But against this it has been pointed out that the Word of God is not conceived in the Old Testament as an independent Being, still less as equivalent for the Messiah, and that the rabbinical doctrine which identifies the memra with God is of much later date. - Weizsacker (Apostolisches Zeitalter)
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I like to view "Logos" as "Wisdom" or "Reason".
Just my opinion.
