Philo of Alexandria - Books and Journals

critical studies 2004 337
Alessandria: natura, legge, storia. Atti del VII convegno di studi del Gruppo
Italiano di Ricerca su Origene e la traditione alessandrina (Bologna 29–30
settembre 2003), Biblioteca di Adamantius 2 (Villa Verruchio 2004) 1–8.
Political history in Philo is, on the one hand, dependent upon the particular
angle from which the public life of the city was observed and the status of the
same: in his time Alexandria was one of the largest metropolitan cities of the
Roman empire, and, thanks to the papyri and literary texts, it is well known
how turbulent and unstable the political situation was. On the other hand, his
philosophical conception assigned to politics a role that is brought out very
effectively by the beginning of Legat. and theorized in the treatise Ios. Since
politics is a direct emanation of the sensible world subject to the Tyche, and
precariousness and inconstancy are inherent to politics, history consists in a
succession of misunderstandings and failures to comprehend. Philo’s interest in
political history serves to probe the question of Nature as opposed to Tyche and
thereby reach a greater understanding of the same. (HMK; based on author’s
summary)
204133. H. Tronier, ‘Markusevangeliets Jesus som biografiseret erkendelsesfigur
[Danish: The Jesus of Mark’s Gospel as a Cognitive Figure
Turned into a Figure of Biography],’ in T. L. Thompson and H. Tronier
(edd.), Frelsens biografisering [Danish: Salvation Biographized] (Copenhagen
2004) 237–271.
In this article the author attempts to demonstrate his view that the Gospel
of Mark is to be read as an allegorical work, written according to the same
allegorical principles as Philo uses, for example, when he interprets the biblical
narratives on Abraham and Moses. It is the author’s hypothesis that Mark
applied an allegorical strategy and way of constructing narratives in order to
write into the story of Jesus a Pauline theology. The procedure, according to
Tronier, is comparable to the way in which Philo writes into his biblical and
ethnic stories a philosophical terminology in order to make them ‘philosophical.’
MarkthusmakesPaul’sideology‘Jesuanic’inasimilarwayasPhilomadethe
philosophy of his time Jewish/biblical through using the allegorical method.
(TS)
204134. G.Uluhogian,‘UnineditotestomedievalearmenosuFilone,’
in A. M. Mazzanti and F. Calabi (edd.), La rivelazione in Filone di
Alessandria: natura, legge, storia. Atti del VII convegno di studi del Gruppo
Italiano di Ricerca su Origene e la traditione alessandrina (Bologna 29–30
settembre 2003), Biblioteca di Adamantius 2 (Villa Verruchio 2004) 249–
253.
The medieval Armenian Book of Causes, which is still largely unpublished,
is a collection of writings on the occasions or ‘causes’ of the composition of