Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Philo on Moses

Walter de Gruyter announces a new book on Moses in Biblical and extra-Biblical traditions to be published these days: Moses in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Traditions
Ed. by Axel Graupner & Michael Wolter
(Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 372)
2007. 277 pages. Cloth. Euro [D] 88.00 / sFr 141.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 123.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019460-9
The announcement says furthermore: "The papers in this volume revolve around the history of the influence exerted by the person of Moses and the traditions associated with him. They deal not only with the function of the figure of Moses in the Pentateuch, the salvation in the Red Sea and the final day of Moses’ life, but also with the way Moses was received in the Deuteronomic history, the Psalms, the Book of Jeremiah, the Septuagint, in Qumran, early Jewish extra-biblical literature, the New Testament and the Early Church."

It turns out that the volume also contain a couple of articles on Philo:

Pierluigi Lanfranchi, 'Reminiscences of Ezekiel's Exagoge in Philo's De Vita Mosis,' pp. 143-150;
and
Hywel Clifford, 'Moses as Philosopher-Sage in Philo.' pp. 151-168.

I have not seen the volume yet, just its announcement, so I have no further information than this bibliographic note.

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