Philo's 'Heavenly Man' )
1973; Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/156853673x00132
ISSN1568-5365
Autores Tópico(s)Theology and Canon Law Studies
ResumoIn a number of passages in the works of Philo of Alexandria Gen. i 26 f. is interpreted of a 'heavenly man' as opposed to the empirical man created in Gen. ii 7 of body and soul. This fact is of particular interest to New Testament studies for two reasons: in the first place it has a particular relevance as a possible background to Paul's statements in I Cor. xv 44 ff.; secondly it takes on a more general significance in the study of the background of the New Testament because it has been suggested that here we have preChristian evidence of the existence of a gnostic anthropos-figure and hence of a gnostic redeemer-myth. As regards the first point, it may well be that exegetes have taken a wrong tack in their initial exegesis of Paul. It has rightly been argued that I Cor. xv 46 is polemical, but is his quarrel with a doctrine of two men? W. SCHMITHALS, for instance, rightly points out that what are contrasted in this verse are two neuters 2); but, even if that point is fully convincing, that does not mean that he is justified in his gnostic interpretation of the two natures in the scheme of thought which Paul here opposes. Although he claims
Referência(s)