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8.1 Scriptural Commentaries 8.1 Scriptural Commentaries
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8.2 Topical Arrangements of Laws 8.2 Topical Arrangements of Laws
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8.3 Philo and Early Rabbinic Midrash on Seeing and Hearing at Sinai 8.3 Philo and Early Rabbinic Midrash on Seeing and Hearing at Sinai
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8.4 Conclusion 8.4 Conclusion
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Abstract
There is no extant evidence upon which to claim that the early rabbinic sages of the first three centuries ce played a role in the reception history of Philo of Alexandria. Simply put, there is no reason to think that either knew of the other, or of the other’s writings or teachings. Nevertheless, there is great value in regarding each in relation to the other for they are both part of the larger contexts of the Greco-Roman intellectual, social, cultural, and political worlds, of which they both partook and to which they both contributed. This chapter focuses on three such points of comparison and contrast: (1) scriptural interpretation (in rabbinic terms, midrash) utilizing for rhetorical purposes the form of dialogical commentary; (2) the grouping of laws according to their topical affinities and rubrics (in rabbinic terms Mishnah), for which they are both excellent exemplars of bringing legal order to disorder, but much more rhetorically too; (3) a specific exegetical example, based on the Exodus 19–20, dealing with the congruence and interpenetration of visual and auditory modes of interpretive reception, each in its own hermeneutical way, but with significant similarities.
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