Philo of Alexandria - Books and Journals

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3. French Translations
b. Translation of Single Works
2255. F. Siegert, ‘Le fragment philonien De Deo.Premièretraduction
française avec commentaire et remarques sur le langage métaphorique
de Philon,’ in C. Lévy (ed.), Philon d’Alexandrie et le langage de la
philosophie, Monothéismes et Philosophie (Turnhout 1998) 183–228.
Siegert, assisted by Jacques de Roulet, presents the first French translation
of the Philonic fragment De Deo, based on his earlier German translation and
commentary published in 1988 (= RRS 3103). This fragment is preserved only
in an Armenian translation. In his introductory remarks, Siegert notes that it
has received very little attention, in spite of the great theological interest of
its contents. He argues that it is probably part of a very late work, presenting
Philo’s final position on the nature of the supreme principle and on whether it
can be called Ων. First the translation is given (pp. 186–191), followed by
a detailed commentary (191–220). In the commentary Siegert includes a great
number of retroversions from the Armenian back to what he reconstructs to be
theoriginalGreek.Thecommentarydiscussesthemostimportantphilosophical
and theological themes of the fragment, and lists numerous parallels to other
Philonic texts. A further section gives a systematic listing of all the metaphorical
language found in the fragment under four headings, namely epistemological,
ontological, cosmological, and political metaphors. For the sake of clarity all
these metaphors had earlier been underlined in the translation. In an appendix
Siegert lists a number of corrections to his retroverted Greek text which he
published in the original edition of 1988, responding to suggestions given by
D. T. Runia and J. R. Royse in their reviews of that work. The article concludes
with a bibliography of literature referred to in the body of the article. (DTR)
4. Spanish Translations
b. Translation of Single Works
2354. S. Torrallas Tovar, Filón de Alejandría: Sobre los Sueños,
Sobre José, Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 235 (Madrid 1997).
This Spanish translation of three Philonic works, Somn. 1–2andIos., improves
on the only one hitherto available, the complete translation of Triviño (see
R-R 2303). It is based on the author’s dissertation (see RRS 9584). The choice of
terminology is accurate and the correspondence of vocabulary in both languages
is carefully maintained. The author also bears in mind parallel material on the
topicofdreamsinancientliterature.Reviews:J.P.Martín,SPhA (1999) 163–
165. (JPM)