Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah "
Maren Niehoff

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1074750
Doc. No	:	LA118379
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157006308X297741‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Maren Niehoff
Title & Author	:	Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah [Article]\ Maren Niehoff
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	39/3
Page No	:	337–366
Abstract	:	This article investigates whether Philo and the rabbis were intrigued by the same problems in the Biblical text and how they solved them. Three sets of questions and answers are studied, pertaining to the trees of Life and Knowledge as well as to God's famous saying “let us make man” (Gen. 1:26). Each cluster is investigated in its historical context and in comparison to its parallel in the other corpus. Philo and Genesis Rabbah operated in radically different environments. While Philo was directly familiar with Homeric scholarship and applied certain of its methods to Scripture, Genesis Rabbah emerged in an environment where Christian exegetes rivaled their study of the same text. Questions and answers were now raised concerning the same verses and helped to define boundaries between the different groups. This article investigates whether Philo and the rabbis were intrigued by the same problems in the Biblical text and how they solved them. Three sets of questions and answers are studied, pertaining to the trees of Life and Knowledge as well as to God's famous saying “let us make man” (Gen. 1:26). Each cluster is investigated in its historical context and in comparison to its parallel in the other corpus. Philo and Genesis Rabbah operated in radically different environments. While Philo was directly familiar with Homeric scholarship and applied certain of its methods to Scripture, Genesis Rabbah emerged in an environment where Christian exegetes rivaled their study of the same text. Questions and answers were now raised concerning the same verses and helped to define boundaries between the different groups.
Descriptor	:	“PARTING OF THE WAYS”
Descriptor	:	CREATION OF MAN IN GOD'S IMAGE
Descriptor	:	GENESIS RABBAH
Descriptor	:	HOMERIC SCHOLARSHIP AND BIBLE EXEGESIS IN ALEXANDRIA
Descriptor	:	PHILO
Descriptor	:	TREES OF KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157006308X297741‬