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This page intentionally left blank JEWISH EXEGESIS AND HOMERIC SCHOLARSHIP IN ALEXANDRIA SystematicallyreadingJewishexegesisinlightofHomericscholarship, thisbookarguesthatmorethantwothousandyearsagoAlexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation which are still extremely relevant today. Maren Niehoff provides a detailedanalysisofAlexandrianBibleinterpretation,fromthesecond century bce through newly discovered fragments to the exegetical workdonebyPhilo.NiehoffshowsthatAlexandrianJewsresponded inagreatvarietyofwaystotheHomericscholarshipdevelopedatthe Museum.SomeJewishscholarsusedthemethodsoftheirGreekcol- leaguestoinvestigatewhethertheirScripturecontainedmythsshared by other nations, while others insisted that significant differences existedbetweenJudaismandothercultures.Thisbookisvitalforany studentofancientJudaism,earlyChristianityandHellenisticculture. maren r. niehoffisSeniorLecturerintheDepartmentofJewish Thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author ofTheFigureofJosephinPost-BiblicalLiterature()andPhiloon JewishIdentityandCulture(). JEWISH EXEGESIS AND HOMERIC SCHOLARSHIP IN ALEXANDRIA MAREN R. NIEHOFF cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecbru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ (cid:1)c MarenNiehoff Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForUdi,Maya,AyanaandStav Inmemoryof LeoraElias-BarLevavandRenaMoses-Hrushovski Moi,unpeumortparmilesvivants,toi,unpeuvivanteparmi lesmorts. (AlbertCohen,Lelivredemame`re) Contents Acknowledgements pageix Listofabbreviations xiii Settingthestage part i early jewish responses to homeric scholarship Aconservativereactiontocriticalscholarshipinthe LetterofAristeas QuestionsandanswersinAristotelianstyle: Demetrius’anonymouscolleagues Aristobulus’questionsandanswersasatoolfor philosophicalinstruction part ii critical homeric scholarship in the fragments of philo’s anonymous colleagues Comparativemythology HistoricalperspectivesonScripture TracesoftextcriticismamongAlexandrianJews part iii the inversion of homeric scholarship by philo LiteralmethodsofHomericscholarshipinPhilo’s AllegoricalCommentary vii viii Contents Philo’sQuestionsandAnswersasamanualof instruction Philo’sExpositionoftheLawatasignificantdistance fromAlexandrianscholarship Epilogue References IndexofGreekterms Indexofsources Indexofmodernauthors Generalindex
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