The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism

Name: The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism
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Cover
Titel
Table of Contents
Introduction
0.1 Hecataeus of Abdera (ca 300 B.C.E.)
0.2 Manetho (III B.C.E.)
0.3 Ocellus Lucanus (II B.C.E.)
0.4 Lysimachus
0.5 Apollonius Molon (I B.C.E.)
0.6 Alexander Polyhistor (ca 105-35 B.C.E.)
0.7 Diodorus Siculus (I B.C.E.)
0.8 Nicolaus of Damascus
0.9 Strabo (ca 64 B.C.E. to I C.E.)
0.10 Pompeius Trogus (I B.C.E. to I C.E.)
0.11 Tacitus (ca 56-II C.E.)
0.12 Chaeremon (I C. E.)
0.13 Apion (I C.E.)
0.14 Ps. Longinus (I C.E.)
0.15 Ps. Ecphantus (I-II C.E.?)
0.16 Numenius (II C.E.)
0.17 Historians
0.18 The LXX in Magical Texts
0.19 Pompey: Inscriptions and Art
0.20 Hermetica
0.21 Conclusion
1. Celsus
1.1 Celsus on the Allegory of the Old Testament
1.1.1 Character of the Hebrew Scriptures
1.1.2 Allegorists: A Higher Class of Jews and Christians
1.1.3 OT Texts Absent of Allegorical Meaning
1.2 Creation
1.2.1 The Mosaic Account as Nonsense
1.2.2 The Seven Days of Gen 1
1.2.3 Time and the Days of Creation
1.2.4 Light
1.2.5 The Sabbath
1.2.6 God's Mouth, Voice, and Image
1.2.7 Adam, Eve, and the Snake
1.2.8 The Creator God and the Serpent
1.2.9 The Tree of Life
1.2.10 The Garden of Eden as Comedy
1.2.11 The Spirit, the Highest God, the Creator God, and the Strangers
1.2.12 Celsus Against an Anthropocentric Creation
1.2.13 All is Made for Humans?
1.2.14 Weather and Plants: For People or Animals?
1.2.15 Celsus' View of the Created Order
1.2.16 The World is God's Child
1.2.17 Animals and Humans
1.2.18 Celsus' Conclusions About the Created Order
1.3 Seventy Punished Angels
1.4 The Flood
1.5 Floods and Conflagrations
1.6 The Misunderstood Plato
1.7 An Uncreated Universe and Floods/Conflagrations
1.8 The Flood, God's Inability to Persuade, and his Repentance
1.9 The Existence of Evil and God's Correction of the World
1.10 The Tower of Babel
1.11 Abraham's Circumcision
1.12 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
1.13 Lot and his Daughters
1.14 Abraham and Sarah, Rebeccah, Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel
1.15 Wells, Marriages, Brides, and Slaves (Sarah and Hagar)
1.16 The Genealogy of the Progenitors
1.17 Esau's Hatred
1.18 The Rape of Dinah and Simeon and Levi's Revenge
1.19 Joseph, His Brothers, and Jacob
1.20 Moses and Ancient Wisdom
1.21 The Jews' Worship of Angels, and Moses as their Exegete of Magic
1.22 Moses and God
1.23 The Herders' Names for God
1.24 The Egyptian Origin of the Jews
1.25 The Jews as Fugitive Slaves
1.26 Moses and the Angel
1.27 The Flight from Egypt
1.28 Laws
1.28.1 The Customs of Different Nations
1.28.2 Celsus on Food Customs
1.28.3 Circumcision and Pork
1.28.4 Israel and the Nations
1.29 Doctrines
1.29.1 Purity, Heaven, and Election
1.29.2 The Worship of Heaven and Angels
1.29.3 God Higher than Heaven
1.29.4 Seven Heavens
1.29.5 Promises to the Jews: Population and Resurrection
1.30 Prophets and Prophecy
1.30.1 Jonah and Daniel
1.30.2 The Prophets as Inspired
1.30.3 Prophecy is not Unique to Judaism
1.30.4 Celsus' Jewish Persona on Old Testament Prophecy of a Son of God
1.30.5 Celsus' Charges Against the Jews and Christians' Belief in a Savior
1.31 Versus the Wrath of God
1.32 A Person's Anger with the Jews and God's Anger
1.33 Celsus on the Jews' Current Status
1.34 Gentile Proselytes to Judaism
1.35 Conclusion
2. Porphyry
2.1 Remarks on Judaism from Porphyry's Philosophy Drawn from Oracles
2.1.1 The Road to the Gods
2.1.2 Seven heavens
2.1.3 The Creator God of the Hebrews
2.1.4 The Transcendent Second God
2.2 Porphyry's Contra Christianos and Other Texts
2.2.1 F. 1 of Porphyry's Against the Christians: On the Mythologies of the Jews
2.2.2 Against Allegorical Interpretation of the LXX
2.2.3 Gen 1:2 and Souls
2.2.4 Gen 2:7 and the Soul
2.2.5 Eden
2.2.6 Gen 3:21: Garments of Skin
2.2.7 Dreams: Pythagoras and the Hebrews
2.2.8 The Chronology of Moses
2.2.9 Moses and the Egyptian Magicians
2.2.10 Ecclesiastes 4:8: Does God have a Son?
2.2.11 The Prophets Against Sacrifice?
2.2.12 Porphyry's Excerpt from Theophrastus on Sacrifice
2.2.13 Hosea's Marriage to a Prostitute
2.2.14 Jonah
2.2.15 Zechariah and Antiochus Epiphanes
2.2.16 Daniel
2.2.16.1 Porphyry's Eastern Sources?
2.2.16.2 Porphyry's Cultural Identity and Language
2.2.16.3 The Western Sources
2.2.16.4 Jerome's Knowledge of Porphyry
2.2.16.5 The Twelfth Volume of Porphyry's Contra Christianos: A Foreseen Future is Impossible
2.2.16.6 Susanna, The Language of Daniel, and Its Authenticity
2.2.16.7 Porphyry's and Jerome's Sources
2.2.16.8 Dan 2:35
2.2.16.9 Dan 2:46
2.2.16.10 Dan 2:48
2.2.16.11 Dan 3:98
2.2.16.12 Dan 5:10
2.2.16.13 Dan 7:7 and the Four Beasts
2.2.16.14 Dan 7:8, 14. The Little Horn and the Son of Man
2.2.16.15 Dan 7:18 and the Holy Ones
2.2.16.16 The King in Dan 9:1
2.2.16.17 The Abomination of the Desolation in Dan 9:27
2.2.16.18 Jerome's Use of Porphyry in Dan 11
2.2.16.19 The Kings of Dan 11:20
2.2.16.20 Dan 11:21: Antiochus or Antichrist?
2.2.16.21 Dan 11:25 and the Invasion of Egypt
2.2.16.22 Dan 11:27-28a and Antiochus
2.2.16.23 Dan 11:28b-30a: the Failure of Antiochus or the Antichrist?
2.2.16.24 Antiochus Against Jerusalem and Dan 11:30b
2.2.16.25 Dan 11:31 and the Abomination of the Desolation
2.2.16.26 Dan 11:32 and the Renegades
2.2.16.27 Dan 11:33 and the Sufferings of the Jews
2.2.16.28 The Maccabees and Dan 11:34-35
2.2.16.29 Dan 11:36: Antiochus or Antichrist in the Temple?
2.2.16.30 Dan 11:37-39: The Desire of Women and the God of Maozim
2.2.16.31 Dan 11:40-41a and an Alleged Late Invasion of Egypt by Antiochus
2.2.16.32 Dan 11:41b and a Reprieve for Three Nations
2.2.16.33 Dan 11:42-43 on Libya and Ethiopia
2.2.16.34 Dan 11:44-45: "Apedno," the Persians, and Jerome's Summary of the Argument
2.2.16.35 The Resurrection, the Maccabees and Dan 12:1-3
2.2.16.36 Dan 12:5-6 and the Time of the End
2.2.16.37 Dan 12:7a and Chronology
2.2.16.38 Dan 12:7b and the Scattering of God's People
2.2.16.39 Dan 12:11 and the 1290 Days
2.2.16.40 Dan 12:12 and the Forty-Five days
2.2.16.41 Dan 12:13 and the Resurrection
2.3 Conclusion
3. Julian
3.1 The Language of the OT
3.2 The Incomplete Creation Account
3.3 Genesis 1
3.4 Plato on Creation of the Universe and of Humans
3.5 The Knowledge of Good and Evil
3.6 Adam and Eve
3.7 The Serpent's Language
3.8 Garments of Skins
3.9 Julian's Conclusion about the Second Creation Narrative
3.10 Myth and Allegory
3.11 Cain and Abel
3.12 The Sons of God and the Daughters of Humans
3.13 The Tower of Babel
3.14 Babel and the Difference in Customs of Nations
3.15 Who Helped God Confuse the Languages?
3.16 The God of Abraham
3.17 Abraham and Eleazar as Diviners
3.18 The Faith of Abraham
3.19 The Covenant with Abraham, Circumcision, and the Christians
3.20 Genesis 49:10 and the Messiah
3.21 Israel and God's Chosen People, Moses and Pharaoh
3.22 Israel as God's Firstborn Son
3.23 Slavery and the Jews
3.24 The Passover and the Christians
3.25 The Decalogue
3.26 God's Jealousy and Theological Language
3.27 God's Vengeance of the Fathers' Sins on Children
3.28 Lev 7:20 and Christian Practice
3.29 Fire from Heaven (Lev 9:24 and 1 Kgs 18:38)
3.30 Lev 11:3 and Christian Diet
3.31 The Atonement
3.32 Sin: Did Moses and Jesus Take it Away?
3.33 Num 24:17 and Jesus
3.34 Phinehas (Num 25:1-11)
3.35 Phinehas or Greek Lawgivers and Philosophers?
3.36 Moses' Cruelty
3.37 Moses and the Permanence of the Law
3.38 Moses and Monotheism in Deuteronomy
3.39 Deut 6:13 Against Matt 28:19
3.40 A Prophet Like Moses
3.41 Deut 32:9, Exod 22:28, and the Christians' Relation to Judaism and Hellenism
3.42 David and Samson
3.43 Solomon's Wisdom
3.44 Elijah's Sacrifice outside Jerusalem
3.45 The Fast of Moses, Elijah, and Jesus
3.46 Esdras (Ezra) and the Writings of Moses
3.47 A Comment on Prophecy in The Letter to a Priest
3.48 Isaiah, Mary, and Johannine Christology
3.49 Mary, the Word of God, Isa 7:14, and Deut 32:39
3.50 Incubation and Isa 65:4
3.51 Hosea 11:1 and the Use of Prophecy in the NT
3.52 Sacrifice and Jerusalem
3.53 Sacrifice in Hellenism, Judaism, and Christianity
3.54 Julian's Identification of the God of Israel
3.54.1 Julian's Neo-Platonic Triad
3.54.2 Helios in the Contra Galilaeos
3.54.3 Beings Superior to the God of Israel?
3.54.4 The Hebrews' God is Confined
3.54.5 Creator God or Guardian?
3.54.6 The Hebrews' God in the Pyramid Structure of Polytheism
3.54.7 God and his Other Names
3.54.8 God and Julian's Reign
3.54.9 Conclusion
3.55 The Gifts of the Jews: Prophets, Law, Manna, Anointing Oil, and Teachers
3.56 God's Care for Israel, Israel's Blessings, and the Blessings of the Greeks
3.57 Greeks Deserting to the Jews
3.58 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
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