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has his preference. The emphasis on the pedagogic nature of God’s providential
concernfortheworldwastohaveabrightfutureinthePatristicperiod.
(DTR)
203113. M. Salcedo Parrondo, ‘Aplaneis asteres: las estrellas fijas en
Filón de Alejandría,’ Magia y Astrología Antiguas 3 (2003) 217–228.
ThisarticlefocusesononesectionofPlato’sTimaeus (36c–d) and on Philo’s
description of the fixed stars. Its main point is to stress those features of the fixed
and everlasting circle in Plato’s account which are used and slightly modified in
the Philonic conception of the fixed stars. (JPM)
203114.E.Salvaneschi,‘BetweenPhiloandPindar:theDelosQuotation
(Aet. 120–122),’ in F. Calabi (ed.), Italian Studies on Philo of
Alexandria, Studies in Philo of Alexandria and Mediterranean Antiquity
1 (Boston-Leiden 2003) 75–89.
This paper examines in detail one of the three Philonic quotations of Pindar:
Aet. 120–122, quoting Pindar’s fr. 33c Snell-Maehler, which is about the transformation
of Delos from a wandering to a steady island. After a survey of the Pindaric
and extra-Pindaric sources of the myth and a discussion of Philo’s peculiar
interpretation of the fragment, the author investigates the Philonic occurrences
of the verb ανίττεσαι (and cognate words): they appear to be a key to an interpretative
theory of textual meaning, in which Gentile poetical tradition and biblical
authority sometimes merge. (HMK, partly based on the editor’s introductory
summary)
203115. T. Seland, ‘(Re)Presentations of Violence in Philo,’ in SBL
Seminar Papers, vol. 42 (Atlanta 2003) 117–140.
After some introductory comments on models and perspectives for understanding
violence, and a brief presentation of Philo, this essay deals with Philo’s
representations of violence under the following headings: ‘Philo as a witness/victim
of anti-Jewish violence’ (pp. 123–125), and ‘Philo as a witness of
intra-Jewish violence,’ the latter including his presentations of ‘some cases of violence
in the Hebrew Bible,’ and possible ‘cases of establishment violence’ in his
expositions of Spec. (pp. 126–140). (TS)
203116. R. Sgarbi, ‘Contributi dalla versione armena al testo filoneo
Peri biou theoretikou,’ Aevum 77 (2003) 131–136.
The high degree of faithfulness of the Armenian translation of Contempl. to
the original Greek text allows the author to reconstruct three passages of the
treatise (46.1–8; 46.11–47.5; 47.16–18 C–W), both correcting and consolidating
the editions of Conybeare, Cohn and Colson. (RR)