Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,1 (2021) 6-28
Keywords:
Philo, Criticism and interpretation
;
Wisdom of Solomon Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Cosmology, Ancient
;
Polemics in post-biblical literature
;
Idolatry in post-biblical literature
Abstract:
This article treats Hellenistic Jewish literature that ridicules the alleged worship of the elements, the heavens, the heavenly bodies, or other “parts” of the cosmos, especially as developed in the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Ps-Solomon. It is argued that such claims constitute a distinctive sub-type of religious polemic that draws on and adapts from Platonic and Stoic traditions of cosmology. Such polemics are most clearly developed in Philo’s treatises and in chapter 13 of the Wisdom of Solomon, but they also appear in more abbreviated form in the fragments of Philo of Byblos and Aristobulus. I suggest that these traditions of invective may bear on the interpretation of Rom 1:19–23, but only in an indirect way.
DOI:
10.1177/09518207211041308
URL:
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