Jewish exegesis and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria /

Jewish exegesis and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria /

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"Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago Alexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation which are still extremely relevant today. Maren Niehoff provides a detailed analysis of Alexan...

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Main Author: Niehoff, Maren
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Bible. > Ancien Testament > Critique, interprétation, etc. juives.
Bible. > Old Testament
To 1500
300 b.C.-0.
0-100.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Jewish learning and scholarship > Egypt > Alexandria > History > To 1500.
Jews > Civilization > Greek influences.
Hellenism.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Religion.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage
  • pt. I. Early Jewish responses to Homeric scholarship. A conservative reaction to critical scholarship in the Letter of Aristeas
  • Questions and answers in Aristotelian style : Demetrius' anonymous colleagues
  • Aristobulus' questions and answers as a tool for philosophical instruction
  • pt. II. Critical Homeric scholarship in the fragments of Philo's anonymous colleagues. Comparative mythology
  • Historical perspectives on scripture
  • Traces of text criticism among Alexandrian Jews
  • pt. III. The inversion of Homeric scholarship by Philo. Literal methods of Homeric scholarship in Philo's Allegorical commentary
  • Philo's Questions and answers as a manual of instruction
  • Philo's Exposition of the law at a significant distance from Alexandrian scholarship.

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