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REVIEWS Anita Méasson, Du char ailé de Zeus à l'Arche d'alliance: images et mythes platoniciens chez Philon d'Alexandrie. Études Augustiniennes, Paris, 1986. 466 pp. It is not implausible, I believe, to attribute the remarkable post-war achievement of French scholarship in the area of Philonic studies to a conscious reaction against the scathingly negative portrait of Philo presented by Festugière in the second volume of his classic work on the Hermetic Corpus (1949). Boyanc6 (REG 76 (1963) 64 ff.) demonstrated how uniquely valuable the evidence is which Philo supplies on intellec- tual developments in the lst centuries B.C. and A.D. Harl in her com- mentary on Quis Heres (1966, cf. VChr 26 (1972) 60 f.) ably defended the thesis that Philo's remarkable double culture of Greek and Jewish elements marked a turning point in the history of spirituality. Nikiprowetzky in his seminal monograph (1977, cf. VChr 32 (1978) 220 ff.) argued with great force that Philo emerges as an impressive thinker, provided he is read as an exegete of scripture who relates biblical realities to a philosophical language of reason. Cazeaux more recently (1983) took the defence of Philo to its apogee, claiming (not wholly successfully, cf. VChr 38
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1988
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