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5 - The Philosophical Styles of Hellenistic Judaism

from Part III - Persistence in Hellenistic Judaism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2021

Dru Johnson
Dru Johnson
Affiliation:
King’s College, New York City
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Using the question – Can humans naturally infer a creator from created things? – I explore examples of Hellenistic Jewish thinking that hybridizes the Hebraic philosophical style with the Hellenist. Wisdom of Solomon and Philo are compared to Paul's treatmetn of this question in Athens (Acts 17; Rom 1–2). Paul takes a distinctively Hebraic approach while Wisdom and Philo show signs of significant hybridity.

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Wisdom of SolomonPhiloPaulAthensActs 17Romans 1Deuteronomy 4creaturecreationepistemologyhidden and revealedDanielEstherSussana4 Ezra
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Biblical Philosophy
A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments
 , pp. 151 - 180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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