Rhetorical Hermeneutics in Philo

Searching for 'Philon d'Alexandrie' on the Internet I came over an article I had not seen on the Internet before, though I knew it was published on paper some time ago:
Manuel Alexandre Jr.
Rhetorical Hermeneutics in Philo's Commentary of Scripture,
Logo. Revista de Retorica y teoria de la Comunicacion Ano I,no 1. Enero 2001, pp. 29-41.
Manuel Alexandre who is the author of 'Rhetorical Argumentation in Philo of Alexandria (Brown Judaic Studies 122/Studie Philonica Monographs 2; Scholars press, Atlanta, 1999), in this article says thus about Philo and rhetorics: In no better way could we summarize the basic characteristics of Philo’s exegetical commentary. His allegorical interpretation rarely contradicts classical sources. He is nurtured by those sources in order to transmit, with relevance and power, the message disclosed in the text. And it does not surprise us, because sacred exegesis and classical philology have the same origins. The only difference is that while philology is the art of reading texts, hermeneutics is the art of reading texts in order to restore, update and apply the life intention theyincarnate.
A Hellenized Jew with good rhetorical education, Philo consciously uses the same principles of interpretation, though accommodated to the terminology of Jewish law. Reading Scripture, he looks beyond the letter to the intention of the divine writer and beyond the part to the whole, in order to understand not just what the words signify but also what the writer meant, and how to accommodate his meaning to new circumstances without loosing the essence of its message. In keeping with the rhetorical tradition of interpretation, Philo, as an equitable interpreter, reads Scripture as an activity that can be illuminated by the rhetorical tradition of interpretation and “reaches beyond the words to the intention, beyond the letter to the spirit”.
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