Philosophical exegesis in Philo of Alexandria
Vasiliu, Anca
Philosophical exegesis in Philo of Alexandria - 2021.
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This article attempts to grasp the relationship between exegesis, rhetoric and philosophy in the texts of Philo from a particular angle: the Philonian use of biblical images and the specific role assigned to images in Hellenic thought. If there is in the Alexandrine a reflection on the virtues of language deployed between the exegesis of biblical texts and the constant recourse to theoretical models of philosophy, this reflection explicitly aims to establish a science, rational theology, legitimized by its foundation on the biblical letter and validated at the same time by a specifically philosophical approach and lexicon. However, the practice of images falls within this Philonian attempt to found theological reflection on the relationship of language with the sensitive and intellectual faculties, from the figures and concepts with which philosophical language works to the establishment of a knowledge from the paradigm of the epiphanic virtues with which the biblical letter is provided.
Philosophical exegesis in Philo of Alexandria - 2021.
13
This article attempts to grasp the relationship between exegesis, rhetoric and philosophy in the texts of Philo from a particular angle: the Philonian use of biblical images and the specific role assigned to images in Hellenic thought. If there is in the Alexandrine a reflection on the virtues of language deployed between the exegesis of biblical texts and the constant recourse to theoretical models of philosophy, this reflection explicitly aims to establish a science, rational theology, legitimized by its foundation on the biblical letter and validated at the same time by a specifically philosophical approach and lexicon. However, the practice of images falls within this Philonian attempt to found theological reflection on the relationship of language with the sensitive and intellectual faculties, from the figures and concepts with which philosophical language works to the establishment of a knowledge from the paradigm of the epiphanic virtues with which the biblical letter is provided.
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