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The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to
furthuring the study of Hellenistic Judaism, and in particular of
the writings and thought of the great Hellenistic-Jewish writer
Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 B.C.E. to circa 50 C.E.). The Journal
appears annually in November and is available at the annual meeting
of the Society of Biblical Literature held in that month .
This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records
Proclus' exegesis of Timaeus 27a 31b, in which Plato first
discusses preliminary matters that precede his account of the
creation of the universe, and then moves to the account of the
creation of the universe as a totality. For Proclus this text is a
grand opportunity to reflect on the nature of causation as it
relates to the physical reality of our cosmos. The commentary deals
with many subjects that have been of central interest to
philosophers from Plato's time onwards, such as the question
whether the cosmos was created in time, and the nature of evil as
it relates to physical reality and its ontological imperfection.
This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records
Proclus' exegesis of Timaeus 27a-31b, in which Plato first
discusses preliminary matters that precede his account of the
creation of the universe, and then moves to the account of the
creation of the universe as a totality. For Proclus this text is a
grand opportunity to reflect on the nature of causation as it
relates to the physical reality of our cosmos. The commentary deals
with many subjects that have been of central interest to
philosophers from Plato's time onwards, such as the question
whether the cosmos was created in time, and the nature of evil as
it relates to physical reality and its ontological imperfection.
It is a remarkable fact that the writings of Philo, the Jew from
Alexandria, were preserved because they were taken up in the
Christian tradition. But the story of how this process of reception
and appropriation took place has never been systematically
research. In this book the author first examines how Philo's works
are related to the New Testament and the earliest Chritian writing,
and then how they were used by Greek and Latin church fathers up to
400 c.e., with special attention to the contributions of Clement,
Origen, Didymus, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, and Augstine.
Philo in Early Christian Literature is a valuable guide to the
state of scholarly research on a subject that has thus far been
investigated in a rather piecemeal fashion.
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