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critical studies 2002 219<br />

20263. J. P. Martín, ‘Historiografía, religión y filos<strong>of</strong>ía en el siglo II,’ in<br />

J. Fernández Sangrador <strong>and</strong> S. Guijarro Oporto (edd.), Plenitudo<br />

Temporis, Miscelánea Homenaje a R. Trevijano Etcheverría (Salamanca<br />

2002) 313–332.<br />

The author shows that the Christian apologists <strong>of</strong> the 2nd century Tatian <strong>and</strong><br />

Theophilus develop certain conceptions <strong>of</strong> history inherited from the Hellenistic<br />

Judaism, including <strong>Philo</strong>. They hold a universal <strong>and</strong> unitary vision <strong>of</strong> history, in<br />

which Adam is the origin <strong>and</strong> in which the first developments are led by the<br />

patriarchs. The Pentateuch is considered the first non-mythological book <strong>of</strong> the<br />

history <strong>of</strong> mankind. (JPM)<br />

20264. J. P. Martín, ‘Religión y teología,’ in F. Diez de Velasco <strong>and</strong><br />

F. García Bazán (edd.), El estudio de la religión, EnciclopediaIbero-<br />

Americana de Religiones 1 (Madrid 2002) 227–255, esp. 231–235.<br />

Analyzes the influence that <strong>Philo</strong> had on the Christian concept <strong>of</strong> theology,<br />

a tradition to which Clement, Origen, Augustine <strong>and</strong> others belong. In the<br />

<strong>Philo</strong>nic model scientific theology furnishes instruments which convert narrative<br />

accounts, i.e. μι,tothecondition<strong>of</strong>πιστήμη.(JPM)<br />

20265. A. Mazzanti, ‘L’identità dell’uomo in Filone di Aless<strong>and</strong>ria,’<br />

in F. Calabi (ed.), Immagini e rappresentazione. Contributi su Filone di<br />

Aless<strong>and</strong>ria, Studies in <strong>Philo</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>ria</strong> <strong>and</strong> Mediterranean Antiquity<br />

(Binghamton N.Y. 2002) 7–26.<br />

The characteristic <strong>of</strong> ‘boundary-dweller’ (μερις) which<strong>Philo</strong>attributes<br />

to human beings in a certain measure constitutes their essence, inasmuch as the<br />

human being (νρωπς) is presented as the being which st<strong>and</strong>s in between<br />

the material world <strong>and</strong> the heavenly realm. This fact according to some scholars<br />

(H.A.Wolfson,A.Maddalena,T.H.Tobin,D.Winston,M.Harl,G.Reale<strong>and</strong><br />

others) implies an aspect <strong>of</strong> negativity implicit from the beginning, even if it is<br />

possible to surmount the dichotomy in a third dimension <strong>of</strong> the Spirit (πνεμα).<br />

This third constituent bestows on the corporeal a certain positive element <strong>of</strong><br />

participation, thanks to the (Platonic) relation between the model <strong>and</strong> the image.<br />

In this perspective the human being comes to be identified with the noetic <strong>and</strong><br />

rational essence. This is indivisible <strong>and</strong> immanent in anthropological reality.<br />

(RR)<br />

20266.D.A.Nielsen,‘CivilizationalEncountersintheDevelopment<br />

<strong>of</strong>EarlyChristianity,’inA.J.Blasi,J.Duhaime<strong>and</strong>P.-A.Turcotte<br />

(edd.), H<strong>and</strong>book <strong>of</strong> Early Christianity. Social Sciences Approaches (Walnut<br />

Creek Calif. 2002) 267–290, esp. 269–278.<br />

The author deals with the topic <strong>of</strong> civilizational encounters under three headings:<br />

Civilizational Encounters I: Judaism, Hellenism <strong>and</strong> the second axial age <strong>of</strong>

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