Questions and Answers in Philo and Genesis Rabbah

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ID10907285
AuthorsMaren R Niehoff (0000-0002-0815-6929, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Maren Niehoff (1Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905 Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Israel;, Email: [email protected])
Year2008
Volume39
Issue3
Pages337-366
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Study of Judaism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2212 • E-ISSN: 1570-0631
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157006308x297741
OpenAlexW261905487
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This article investigates whether Philo and the rabbis were intrigued by the same problems in the Biblical text and how they solved them. Three sets of questions and answers are studied, pertaining to the trees of Life and Knowledge as well as to God's famous saying “let us make man” (Gen. 1:26). Each cluster is investigated in its historical context and in comparison to its parallel in the other corpus. Philo and Genesis Rabbah operated in radically different environments. While Philo was directly familiar with Homeric scholarship and applied certain of its methods to Scripture, Genesis Rabbah emerged in an environment where Christian exegetes rivaled their study of the same text. Questions and answers were now raised concerning the same verses and helped to define boundaries between the different groups

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