Philo and Paul among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement
In this highly acclaimed work, Bruce Winter gathers for the first time all the available evidence on the first-century sophistic movement from two major centers of learning in the East. Together with the writings of the contemporary Hellenistic Jews, Philo and Paul, he discusses all the protagonists and antagonists of this movement in Alexandria and Corinth. This study provides important insights into the problems that this elitist movement created for Diaspora Jews in Alexandria and for...
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During the first century C.E., Paul was one of the early proselytizers of Christianity and Philo was a prominent Alexandrian Jew. Winter (director, Institute of Early Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World, Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK) examines their rhetoric in an investigation of their connections to the Sophist movement that originated out of Greece. He argues that Philo and Paul cannot be understood without knowledge of their Sophistic counterparts, even when they were violently opposed in argument. Likewise, knowledge of the rhetoric of Philo and Paul sheds important light on the nature of the spread of the Sophists from their Hellenistic origins. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
ForewordPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionAbbreviationsIntroduction1Pt. IThe Alexandrian Sophists151A student among the Alexandrian sophists192Dio and the Alexandrian sophistic leaders403Who are Philo's sophists?594Philo's critique of the Alexandrian sophistic tradition805Philo among the sophists95Pt. IIThe Corinthian Sophists1096Epictetus and the Corinthian student of the sophists1137Dio and Plutarch among the Corinthian sophists1238Paul and sophistic conventions1419Paul's critique of the Corinthian sophistic tradition18010Paul among the Christian sophists20311Conclusions240AppPOxy. 2190256Bibliography261Index of subjects283Index of literary sources286Index of non-literary sources296Index of authors298
