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The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism [electronic resource].

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and ChristianityPublication details: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2020.Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)ISBN:
  • 3161586670
  • 3161484746
  • 9783161484742
  • 9783161586675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman PaganismDDC classification:
  • 204
LOC classification:
  • BS744
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 0.1 Hecataeus of Abdera (ca 300 B.C.E.) -- 0.2 Manetho (III B.C.E.) -- 0.3 Ocellus Lucanus (II B.C.E.) -- 0.4 Lysimachus -- 0.5 Apollonius Molon (I B.C.E.) -- 0.6 Alexander Polyhistor (ca 105-35 B.C.E.) -- 0.7 Diodorus Siculus (I B.C.E.) -- 0.8 Nicolaus of Damascus -- 0.9 Strabo (ca 64 B.C.E. to I C.E.) -- 0.10 Pompeius Trogus (I B.C.E. to I C.E.) -- 0.11 Tacitus (ca 56-II C.E.) -- 0.12 Chaeremon (I C. E.) -- 0.13 Apion (I C.E.) -- 0.14 Ps. Longinus (I C.E.) -- 0.15 Ps. Ecphantus (I-II C.E.?) -- 0.16 Numenius (II C.E.) -- 0.17 Historians
0.18 The LXX in Magical Texts -- 0.19 Pompey: Inscriptions and Art -- 0.20 Hermetica -- 0.21 Conclusion -- 1. Celsus -- 1.1 Celsus on the Allegory of the Old Testament -- 1.1.1 Character of the Hebrew Scriptures -- 1.1.2 Allegorists: A Higher Class of Jews and Christians -- 1.1.3 OT Texts Absent of Allegorical Meaning -- 1.2 Creation -- 1.2.1 The Mosaic Account as Nonsense -- 1.2.2 The Seven Days of Gen 1 -- 1.2.3 Time and the Days of Creation -- 1.2.4 Light -- 1.2.5 The Sabbath -- 1.2.6 God's Mouth, Voice, and Image -- 1.2.7 Adam, Eve, and the Snake -- 1.2.8 The Creator God and the Serpent
1.2.9 The Tree of Life -- 1.2.10 The Garden of Eden as Comedy -- 1.2.11 The Spirit, the Highest God, the Creator God, and the Strangers -- 1.2.12 Celsus Against an Anthropocentric Creation -- 1.2.13 All is Made for Humans? -- 1.2.14 Weather and Plants: For People or Animals? -- 1.2.15 Celsus' View of the Created Order -- 1.2.16 The World is God's Child -- 1.2.17 Animals and Humans -- 1.2.18 Celsus' Conclusions About the Created Order -- 1.3 Seventy Punished Angels -- 1.4 The Flood -- 1.5 Floods and Conflagrations -- 1.6 The Misunderstood Plato
1.7 An Uncreated Universe and Floods/Conflagrations -- 1.8 The Flood, God's Inability to Persuade, and his Repentance -- 1.9 The Existence of Evil and God's Correction of the World -- 1.10 The Tower of Babel -- 1.11 Abraham's Circumcision -- 1.12 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah -- 1.13 Lot and his Daughters -- 1.14 Abraham and Sarah, Rebeccah, Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel -- 1.15 Wells, Marriages, Brides, and Slaves (Sarah and Hagar) -- 1.16 The Genealogy of the Progenitors -- 1.17 Esau's Hatred -- 1.18 The Rape of Dinah and Simeon and Levi's Revenge -- 1.19 Joseph, His Brothers, and Jacob
1.20 Moses and Ancient Wisdom -- 1.21 The Jews' Worship of Angels, and Moses as their Exegete of Magic -- 1.22 Moses and God -- 1.23 The Herders' Names for God -- 1.24 The Egyptian Origin of the Jews -- 1.25 The Jews as Fugitive Slaves -- 1.26 Moses and the Angel -- 1.27 The Flight from Egypt -- 1.28 Laws -- 1.28.1 The Customs of Different Nations -- 1.28.2 Celsus on Food Customs -- 1.28.3 Circumcision and Pork -- 1.28.4 Israel and the Nations -- 1.29 Doctrines -- 1.29.1 Purity, Heaven, and Election -- 1.29.2 The Worship of Heaven and Angels -- 1.29.3 God Higher than Heaven
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Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 0.1 Hecataeus of Abdera (ca 300 B.C.E.) -- 0.2 Manetho (III B.C.E.) -- 0.3 Ocellus Lucanus (II B.C.E.) -- 0.4 Lysimachus -- 0.5 Apollonius Molon (I B.C.E.) -- 0.6 Alexander Polyhistor (ca 105-35 B.C.E.) -- 0.7 Diodorus Siculus (I B.C.E.) -- 0.8 Nicolaus of Damascus -- 0.9 Strabo (ca 64 B.C.E. to I C.E.) -- 0.10 Pompeius Trogus (I B.C.E. to I C.E.) -- 0.11 Tacitus (ca 56-II C.E.) -- 0.12 Chaeremon (I C. E.) -- 0.13 Apion (I C.E.) -- 0.14 Ps. Longinus (I C.E.) -- 0.15 Ps. Ecphantus (I-II C.E.?) -- 0.16 Numenius (II C.E.) -- 0.17 Historians

0.18 The LXX in Magical Texts -- 0.19 Pompey: Inscriptions and Art -- 0.20 Hermetica -- 0.21 Conclusion -- 1. Celsus -- 1.1 Celsus on the Allegory of the Old Testament -- 1.1.1 Character of the Hebrew Scriptures -- 1.1.2 Allegorists: A Higher Class of Jews and Christians -- 1.1.3 OT Texts Absent of Allegorical Meaning -- 1.2 Creation -- 1.2.1 The Mosaic Account as Nonsense -- 1.2.2 The Seven Days of Gen 1 -- 1.2.3 Time and the Days of Creation -- 1.2.4 Light -- 1.2.5 The Sabbath -- 1.2.6 God's Mouth, Voice, and Image -- 1.2.7 Adam, Eve, and the Snake -- 1.2.8 The Creator God and the Serpent

1.2.9 The Tree of Life -- 1.2.10 The Garden of Eden as Comedy -- 1.2.11 The Spirit, the Highest God, the Creator God, and the Strangers -- 1.2.12 Celsus Against an Anthropocentric Creation -- 1.2.13 All is Made for Humans? -- 1.2.14 Weather and Plants: For People or Animals? -- 1.2.15 Celsus' View of the Created Order -- 1.2.16 The World is God's Child -- 1.2.17 Animals and Humans -- 1.2.18 Celsus' Conclusions About the Created Order -- 1.3 Seventy Punished Angels -- 1.4 The Flood -- 1.5 Floods and Conflagrations -- 1.6 The Misunderstood Plato

1.7 An Uncreated Universe and Floods/Conflagrations -- 1.8 The Flood, God's Inability to Persuade, and his Repentance -- 1.9 The Existence of Evil and God's Correction of the World -- 1.10 The Tower of Babel -- 1.11 Abraham's Circumcision -- 1.12 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah -- 1.13 Lot and his Daughters -- 1.14 Abraham and Sarah, Rebeccah, Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel -- 1.15 Wells, Marriages, Brides, and Slaves (Sarah and Hagar) -- 1.16 The Genealogy of the Progenitors -- 1.17 Esau's Hatred -- 1.18 The Rape of Dinah and Simeon and Levi's Revenge -- 1.19 Joseph, His Brothers, and Jacob

1.20 Moses and Ancient Wisdom -- 1.21 The Jews' Worship of Angels, and Moses as their Exegete of Magic -- 1.22 Moses and God -- 1.23 The Herders' Names for God -- 1.24 The Egyptian Origin of the Jews -- 1.25 The Jews as Fugitive Slaves -- 1.26 Moses and the Angel -- 1.27 The Flight from Egypt -- 1.28 Laws -- 1.28.1 The Customs of Different Nations -- 1.28.2 Celsus on Food Customs -- 1.28.3 Circumcision and Pork -- 1.28.4 Israel and the Nations -- 1.29 Doctrines -- 1.29.1 Purity, Heaven, and Election -- 1.29.2 The Worship of Heaven and Angels -- 1.29.3 God Higher than Heaven

1.29.4 Seven Heavens.