Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

tively). Philo makes it very clear that Flaccus’s disgrace was a divine pun- ishment (Flacc.180–91). Even Artapanus gives an exa ...

general issue of God’s justice and Israel’s faithfulness to the covenant is a recurring topic in Jewish literature written in He ...

written in Greek, especially those of Aristobulus and Philo. Universalism, though, is not based primarily on a willingness to we ...

This literature documents a remarkable attempt to embrace Greek culture while maintaining a distinctive Jewish identity. On the ...

ways of expressing Jewish identity and faith. However, the term “syncre- tism,” which is sometimes used in connection with Jewis ...

Jews in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. But it also prompted them to explore new ways of expressing their identity and ...

Rajak, Tessa. 2009.Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora.Oxford: Oxford University Press. ¾¾¾ ...

Philo Gregory E. Sterling, David T. Runia, Maren R. Niehoff, and Annewies van den Hoek Philo of Alexandria (ca. 20b.c.e.–ca. 50c ...

ings and the tendentioustestimoniaof later Christians. The one exception is his role in the embassy to Gaius following the pogro ...

ductions of Greek tragedies (Prob.141). He also speaks of his attendance at banquets where he found it necessary to exercise mod ...

256 sterling, runia, niehoff, and van den hoek Treatise Biblical Text Textual Base Questions and Answers QG 1 Gen. 2:4–6:13 Arme ...

257 Philo Treatise Biblical Text Textual Base Dreams 3 Gen. 37:8-11; 40:9-11, 16-17; Dreams 2 41:17-24 Dreams 4 Lost (Eusebius,H ...

258 sterling, runia, niehoff, and van den hoek Latin and English Abbreviations for Philo’s Works Abr. De Abrahamo Abraham On the ...

sophical schools. More importantly, the preservation of his treatises through Origen suggests that they were part of a Jewish li ...

Questions and Answers on Genesis and Exodus,theAllegorical Commentary, and theExposition of the Law.Modern scholarship generally ...

Text and Versions The original work, written in Greek, consisted of six books for Genesis and five (or perhaps six) books for Ex ...

Method of Interpretation The method used by Philo in this work is straightforward and fairly uni- form. A lengthy series of ques ...

Influence The legacy of the work is to be sought in early Christian rather than Jewish exegesis. Its contents were used by churc ...

in its own right. Philo’s style in theAllegorical Commentaryis properly ap- preciated if we consider that he wished to put alleg ...

been challenged, with the counterclaim that Philo’s method rather subjects Greek culture to the Jewish Scriptures (Dawson 1992). ...