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The despoliation of Egypt in pre-rabbinic, rabbinic and patristic traditions /

Examines how Jews defended themselves against anti-Jewish slander concerning the biblical despoliation of Egypt. The embarrassment of the episode was later 'healed' through allegory and became a critically important biblical justification for the Christian appropriation of the Greco-Roman...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Joel Stevens
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 92.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One, Pre-rabbinic interpretations: 1. The Septuagint
  • 2. The Book of Jubilees
  • 3. Artapanus
  • 4. Ezekiel the tragedian
  • 5. The Book of Wisdom.
  • 6. Philo's Life of Moses.
  • 7. Philo's Who is the heir?
  • 8. Josephus
  • 9. Excursus: the social background of the "Fair Wage" interpretation.
  • Part. Two, Rabbinic interpretations: 1. Midrashic pondering the plunder.
  • Part Three, Patristic interpretations: 1. Irenaeus
  • 2. Tertullian
  • 3. Origen
  • 4. St. Augustine
  • 5. The despoilations, Others [sic] patristic texts
  • Conclusions and ramifications.