THE STUDIA PHILONICA ANNUAL

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THE STUDIA PHILONICA ANNUAL Studies in Hellenistic Judaism

Editors David T. Runia

Gregory E. Sterling

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THE STUDIA PHILONICA ANNUAL Studies in Hellenistic Judaism

Volume XXVII

2015

Editors David T. Runia

Gregory E. Sterling

Associate Editor Sarah J. K. Pearce

Book Review Editor

Ronald Cox

SBL Press Atlanta

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THE STUDIA PHILONICA ANNUAL Studies in Hellenistic Judaism

The financial support of

C. J. de Vogel Foundation, Utrecht Queen’s College, University of Melbourne

Yale University Pepperdine University

is gratefully acknowledged

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THE STUDIA PHILONICA ANNUAL STUDIES IN HELLENISTIC JUDAISM

Editorial Board

Editors: David T. Runia, Queen’s College, University of Melbourne Gregory E. Sterling, Yale University

Associate editor: Sarah J. K. Pearce, University of Southampton

Book review editor: Ronald Cox, Pepperdine University

Advisory Board Thomas H. Tobin, S.J. (Loyola University Chicago) (chair) Harold Attridge (Yale University) Katell Berthelot (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) Ellen Birnbaum (Cambridge, MA) Annewies van den Hoek (Harvard Divinity School) Pieter van der Horst (Zeist, The Netherlands) Adam Kamesar (Hebrew Union College) Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer (University of Aberdeen) Carlos Lévy (Paris) Maren Niehoff (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Robert Radice (Sacred Heart University, Milan) Jean Riaud (Angers, France) James R. Royse (Claremont, CA) Torrey Seland ( Drammen, Norway) Folker Siegert (Münster, Germany) Abraham Terian (St. Nersess Armenian Seminary)

Contributions should be sent to the Editor, Prof. G. E. Sterling, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; email: gregory.sterling@ yale.edu. Please send books for review to the Book Review Editor, Prof. Ronald Cox, Religion Division, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90263-4352; email: rcox@pepperdine.edu.

Contributors are requested to observe the “Instructions to Contributors” located at the end of the volume. These can also be consulted on the Annual’s website: http://divinity.yale.edu/philo-alexandria. Articles which do not con-form to these instructions cannot be accepted for inclusion.

The Studia Philonica Monograph series accepts monographs in the area of Hellenistic Judaism, with special emphasis on Philo and his Umwelt. Proposals for books in this series should be sent to the Editor, Prof. Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., Theo-logy Department, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60660-1537, U.S.A.; email: ttobin@luc.edu.

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CONTENTS

Abbreviations .................................................................................................... ix

ARTICLES

Sarah Pearce, Intermarriage and the Ancestors of the Jews: Philonic Perspectives................................................................................................... 1

Michael Francis, Wasted Seed and Sins of Intent: Sexual Ethics in De Specialibus Legibus 3.34–36 in the Case of Infertile Marriage.................. 27

Arco den Heijer, Cosmic Mothers in Philo of Alexandria and in Neopythagoreanism .................................................................................... 53

Gregory E. Sterling, The Theft of Philosophy: Philo of Alexandria and Numenius of Apamea.......................................................................... 71

Orrey McFarland, Philo’s Prepositional Metaphysics within Early Christian Debates about the Relation of Divine Nature and Agency ........................................................................................................... 87

Benjamin Pollock, Philosophy’s Inquisitor: Franz Rosenzweig’s Philo between Judaism, Paganism, and Christianity.............................. 111

SPECIAL SECTION: PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA AS INTERPRETER

OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Sarah Pearce, Introduction........................................................................... 129 James R. Royse, The Text of Philo’s De Decalogo in Vaticanus GR. 316.... 133 Abraham Terian, The Armenian Textual Tradition of Philo’s

De Decalogo .................................................................................................... 143 Manuel Alexandre Jr., Rhetorical Texture and Pattern in Philo’s

De Decalogo .................................................................................................... 155

BIBLIOGRAPHY SECTION

D. T. Runia, K. Berthelot, E. Birnbaum, A. C. Geljon, H. M. Keizer, J. Leonhardt-Balzer, J. P. Martín, M. R. Niehoff, S. J. K. Pearce, T. Seland, Philo of Alexandria: An Annotated Bibliography 2012......................................................................................... 181

Supplement: A Provisional Bibliography 2013–2015.................................. 217

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BOOK REVIEW SECTION

Y. Amir and M. R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria: Writings. Part V: Allegorical Exegesis on Genesis 12–41 Reviewed by Sharon Weisser .................................................................. 231

Francesca Calabi, Filone di Alessandria Reviewed by Cristina Termini ................................................................ 234

Torrey Seland, ed. Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria Reviewed by Kenneth Schenck............................................................... 236

Lucia Saudelli, Eraclito ad Alessandria. Studi e ricerche intorno alla testimonianza di Filone Reviewed by David T. Runia .................................................................... 240

David Lincicum, Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy Reviewed by Per Jarle Bekken ................................................................ 243 Peder Borgen, The Gospel of John: More Light from Philo, Paul and

Archaeology: The Scriptures, Tradition, Settings, Meaning Reviewed by Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer.................................................. 246

Karl-Gustav Sandelin, Attraction and Danger of Alien Religion: Studies in Early Judaism and Christianity Reviewed by Torrey Seland..................................................................... 249

News and Notes .............................................................................................. 255 Notes on Contributors ................................................................................ 262 Instructions to Contributors.................................................................... 265 Note. The editors wish to thank the typesetter Gonni Runia once again for her tireless work on this volume. They wish to express their thanks to Dr Lisa Marie Belz, OSU, Ph.D., Rev. Paul Adaja and Cory Louie, for meticulously proof-reading the final manuscript. As in previous years we are deeply grateful to our publisher, SBL Press, and to its staff, with a special mention of Nicole Tilford.

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ABBREVIATIONS

The abbreviations used for the citation of ancient texts and modern scholarly literature generally follow the guidelines of the Society of Biblical Literature as published in The SBL Handbook of Style, second edition (SBL Press: Atlanta, GA, 2014) §8.4. In addition to the abbreviations listed in the Instructions to contributors at the back of the volume, please note the following:

Primary Source Abbreviations

Ar. Introductio arithmetica, Nicomachus of Gerasa Contr. Controversiae, Seneca the Elder Hex. Homiliae in Hexaemeron, Basil of Caesarea In metaph. In Aristotelis Metaphysica commentaria, Syrianus In. Nic. In Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem, Iamblichus In R. In Platonis rem publicam commentarii, Proclus In Tim. In Platonis Timaeum commentaria, Proclus Theon Sm. De utilitate mathematicae, Theon of Smyrna

Secondary Source Abbreviations

BT Rosenzweig, Franz. Briefe und Tagebucher. Band 1: 1900–1918. Der Mensch und sein Werk. Gesammelte Schriften 1. ed. Rachel Rosenzweig and Edith Rosenzweig-Scheinmann. Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979.

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