The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo’s Representation of Egypt. By Sarah J. K. Pearce
Sarah Pearce is well known among Philonic scholars for a series of fine articles on the Jewish Alexandrian philosopher. Now she has published a major work of which the main title is one of the denigrating designations Philo uses for Egypt (see e.g. Agric. 88; Migr. 154). In Philo’s allegorical inter...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 271-273 |
| Review of: | The land of the body (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2007) (Horst, Pieter Willem van der)
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| Summary: | Sarah Pearce is well known among Philonic scholars for a series of fine articles on the Jewish Alexandrian philosopher. Now she has published a major work of which the main title is one of the denigrating designations Philo uses for Egypt (see e.g. Agric. 88; Migr. 154). In Philo’s allegorical interpretations of the biblical stories Egypt usually stands for evil, especially the evil of bodily passions. This motif is dealt with at length in this valuable book. Chapter 1 (‘Philo’s Contexts’) is an excellent general introduction to the man and his world, including Alexandrian culture (ad p. 40, n. 235: on Apion as a scholar see also P. W. van der Horst, ‘Who Was Apion?’ in my Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Studies on Jewish Hellenism in Antiquity [Leuven: Peeters, 2002], pp. 207–22). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp127 |