This contribution analyses the relationship between Philo’ s philosophical exegesis and some categories that are characteristic of Platonism in the Imperial Age. The figure of Moses is assumed as a point of observation of this phenomenon, since he is a privileged subject in the relationship between man and God. The analysis assumes as a core point the exegesis of Dt 5,31, in which God invites Moses to “stay with him”. Two main concepts are at stake: the proximity to God and the idea of stability. This paper therefore tries to explore the possibility that these two aspects are translated and assimilated, throughout Philo’ s hermeneutics, to two central axes of Platonism in the Imperial Age: assimilation to God, on the one hand, immutability and the First Principle’ s ontological otherness, on the other.
Assimilazione e immutabilità. Modelli platonici della relazione tra Mosè e Dio in Filone di Alessandria
Francesca Simeoni
2018
Abstract
This contribution analyses the relationship between Philo’ s philosophical exegesis and some categories that are characteristic of Platonism in the Imperial Age. The figure of Moses is assumed as a point of observation of this phenomenon, since he is a privileged subject in the relationship between man and God. The analysis assumes as a core point the exegesis of Dt 5,31, in which God invites Moses to “stay with him”. Two main concepts are at stake: the proximity to God and the idea of stability. This paper therefore tries to explore the possibility that these two aspects are translated and assimilated, throughout Philo’ s hermeneutics, to two central axes of Platonism in the Imperial Age: assimilation to God, on the one hand, immutability and the First Principle’ s ontological otherness, on the other.
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