From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 10:25:29 EDT
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<div>At 2:58 PM +0100 8/21/00, Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote:</div>
<div>>On the IOUDAIOS-L list, Jane Harper recently posed this question:<br>
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>I am, as they say over on B-Greek, a Little Greek, and what I have I<br>
>don't want to lose, but I'd rather work on something other than the<br>
>Greek NT. My two candidates at this point are Philo's "Questions on<br>
>Genesis" and Josephus' Antiquities. Which, in your opinion, would be a<br>
>better choice?<br>
><<<br>
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>This produced quite a number of interesting, and knowledgeable, replies.<br>
>If Jane is currently reading this list, perhaps she could summarise these<br>
>for us?<br>
>otherwise, the archives are available at:<br>
>http://listserv.lehigh.edu/lists/Archive
></span>s/ioudaios-l/<br>
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>Start on Aug 19 with the "thread" Re: Strange Question,<br>
>Unfortunately, it then switches to " Reading Philo or Josephus?" and yet</div>
<div>>again changes to: " Reading Jewish- Hellenistic Greek "</div>
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<div>Interesting indeed, particularly Jim West's comment "<font color="#000000">(who, btw, [says Steve Mason} never stirs up apathy)" to the effect that "Josephus is more interesting and Philo will only give you a
headache." Josephus is certainly easier to read, as narrative is generally easier than exposition or discussion. I'll agree too that Philo "will give you a headache," but I think the effort to read Philo is well repaid. As
for what's interesting, chacun à son goût: I found the treatise on the creation narratives (De Opificio Mundi) fascinating for what it shows of Hellenistic Jewish interpretation of those first three chapters of Genesis.</font></div>
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Carl W. Conrad<br>
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