Philo and Jewish apologetics

I have earlier (cf. the arhcive) been writing on the Philo blog about the project at the University of Aarhus on "Jews, Christians as Pagens in Antiquity; Criticism and Apologetics".


I myself presented a paper on the subject Philo's relationship to the Temple in Jerusalem in an apologetic perspective at one of their seminars (Filons forhold til tempelet i Jerusalem i eit apologetisk perspektiv). This paper and several other interesting papers are now published in A. Klostergaard Petersen, J. Hyldal and K. Fuglseth (Eds.): Perspektiver på jødisk apologetik (Perspectives on Jewish Apologetics).

Parts of the books is printed in pdf-format.

The books have the following chapters (all in Danish, translated by me):
1. Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Jewish apologetics, the history of the scholarly debate and historical development
2. Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Apologetics in Aristeas
3. Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Artepanos - an early Jewish apologetic writer
4. Anders Klostergaard Petersen. The books of the Maccabeans in an apologetic perspective
5. Per Bilde: Philo as a polemic and apologetic writer
6. Jesper Hyldal: Between a new and an old culture
7. Henrik Tronier: Boundaries of apology
8. Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Philo as an apologetic writer, a reading of De migratione Abrahami
9. Kåre Fuglseth (op. cit.)
10. Per Bilde: Contra Apionem, a key to the authorship of Josephus?


In the same series you will also find (all in Danish):
René Falkenberg og Anders-Christian Jacobsen (Eds.): Perspektiver på Origenes’ Contra Celsum (Perspectives on Origenes' Contra Ceslum)
Aage Pilgaard (Eds.): Apologetik i Det Nye Testamente (Apologetics in the New Testament).
Jakob Engberg, Anders-Christian Jacobsen og Jörg Ulrich (Eds.): Til forsvar for kristendommen – Tidlige kristne apologeter. (Defending Christianity - early Christian Apogetics).