PHILO, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, AND TWO MOSES TRADITIONS: TRADITIONARY COMPETITION OVER A CULTURALICON
Over the preceding centuries, he had come to hold an integral and uniquely prominent place in Jewish self-perception and cultural projection. During that time, “Moses becomes increasingly central and Moses himself is idealized in various ways linked to various notions of authority: for example, as p...
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| Language: | English |
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Brown Univ.
2021
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The studia Philonica annual
Year: 2021, Volume: 33, Pages: 35-72 |
| Summary: | Over the preceding centuries, he had come to hold an integral and uniquely prominent place in Jewish self-perception and cultural projection. During that time, “Moses becomes increasingly central and Moses himself is idealized in various ways linked to various notions of authority: for example, as prophet, as lawgiver, as divine amanuensis, as king and as divine man.”¹ Nowhere is the idealization of Moses more apparent than in the work of Philo. Writing in the vernacular of Hellenistic Greek and the cultural idiom of ‘Middle Platonism’ in the early first century CE,² Philo lifted the great figurehead of Israel to new... |
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| ISSN: | 1052-4533 |
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