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20551.M.MerinoRodriguez,Clemente de Alejandría: Stromata VI–
VIII, Vida intelectual y religiosa del cristianismo. Introducción, traducción
ynotas, Fuentes Patrísticas 17 (Madrid 2005).
Merino edits and translates the last three books of Clement of Alexandria’s
Stromata. He quotes nearly a hundred passages of the corpus Philonicum,
following in general the previous study of A. van den Hoek (RRS 8834). Merino
emphasizes Philo’s role as predecessor especially in the treatment of arithmology
in Str. 6.84–86 and in the presentation of the Decalogue in Str. 6.139–145. The
use of 18 verses of Solon on the topic of the ages of man, Str. 6.144, coincides
completely with the text of Philo, Opif. 104. (JPM)
20552. L. Miralles Maciá, ‘Thíasoi y syssítia esenios: la perspectiva
helenística de Filón de Alejandría acerca de la organización esenia,’
Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos 54, Sección de Hebreo (2005)
27–42.
This article considers the two terms, ίασς and συσσίτιν, whichPhilo
uses to describe the Essenes as brotherhoods and affiliations, cf. Hypoth. 11.5.
Although Philo does not explain the meaning of these terms, they must have
been understandable for his readership. They probably refer to small communities
that held table and house in common. This agrees with the information we
have about Qumran. (JPM)
20553.G.W.E.Nickelsburg,Jewish Literature between the Bible and
the Mishnah: a Historical and Literary Introduction. 2nd ed. (Minneapolis
2005), esp. 212–221.
For this new edition of the classic introduction to the literature of Second
Temple Judaism (first edition published in 1981) the author has broadened
his approach and so has added sections on Philo and Josephus missing
previously. The section on Philo is located in the chapter entitled ‘Israel
in Egypt’ and is, as the author indicates in n. 108, an abridged version of his
paper in the Philo and the New Testament volume published in 2004 (see above
20487). Philo is regarded as an important and significant figure among Hellenistic
Jews around the turn of the era, but in Nickelsburg’s view he was not
unique. His works do, however, furnish a unique window into the world of
Hellenistic Judaism. Without his corpus, our knowledge of this phenomenon
would be greatly impoverished and our view of the Judaism of this period
would be less balanced. Reviews: R. D. Chesnutt, SPhA 20 (2008) 211–213.
(DTR)
20554. M.R.Niehoff,‘ResponsetoDanielS.Schwartz,’The Studia
Philonica Annual 17 (2005) 99–101.