Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)

Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)

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Book Description
Philo's writings are a comprehensive and important source of late Second Temple Judaism. This volume gives important insights into his exegetical works. The structure of the books and their exegetical ideas are seen here as being closely connected and his writings are analysed against the background of the history, variety and outlook of Alexandrian Jewry. Philo's exegesis is a meeting place between Jewish and Greek notions and ideas; tensions are reflected, such as those between particularism and universalism, between specific biblical and historical earthly events and general macro- and micro-cosmic principles, and between heavenly ascents and interpreted history and eschatology. In addition, glimpses are gained of community life in a Hellenistic Jewish community, especially of issues on the borderline between Jews and their non-Jewish surroundings. New Testament material illuminates Philo's broader Jewish context, and in turn Philo throws light on New Testament backgrounds.

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Book Contents:

1. Philosophy and Learning: Universities in the Middle Ages (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol 6)
2. Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
3. Pontus and the Outside World: Studies in Black Sea History, Historiography, and Archaeology (Colloquia Pontica)
4. Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, V. 10)
5. Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 Vol Set) (Studies in Arabic Literature, Vol 20)
6. Renovating Your Home for Maximum Profit
7. Rhetorical Interaction in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10: A Formal Analysis With Preliminary Suggestions for a Chinese, Cross-Cultural Hermeneutic (Biblical)
8. Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: Jesuit Educational Strategy 1553-1622 (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, No. 46)
9. Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity (Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series)
10. Schematic Capture with MicroSim PSpice for Windows Version 3.1 (4th Edition)

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