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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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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.