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| Title: The Pronouncement Story in Philo and Josephus Secondary Title: Semeia Volume: 20 Pages: 73-80 Type: Journal Article Year: 1981 Abstract: "Pronouncement stories are rare in the writings of Philo and Josephus. The one exception is Philo's Quod omnis probus liber sit. In almost all cases the characters in Philo's pronouncement stories come from Greek history or mythology rather than from the Jewish world. In Josephus' few pronouncement stories Jewish figures and concerns do appear. But Josephus, like Philo, did not use the pronouncement story to place striking utterances in the mouths of outstanding leaders from biblical and Jewish history". - D.J.H.
"The pronouncement stories are rare in the writings of Philo, with the exception of Quod omnis probus liber sit (11 out of 17), and almost all of them deal with characters from Greek history or mythology. Philo seems t o have taken into his text, with little or no modifications , pronouncement stories that were circulating in the Greek word and that were also used by early, contemporary, and later writers. In the only exception developed by Philo himself in which a Jewish figure appears (De Abrahamo, 260ff.), he has neither part or lot in the dialogue. In Josephus there are even fewer pronouncement stories (only nine), but Josephus himself seems to have developed the majority of the narratives of this type that he included in his writings, and in all but one he touched upon distinctly Jewish concerns". Keywords: Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo |