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Riassunto di Pseudo-Philo: Biblical Antiquities
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For readers who love ancient Jewish storytelling, biblical interpretation, and the fuller lives imagined for briefly described biblical figures, with speeches and prayers that explore faithfulness and God’s covenant.
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Pseudo-Philo: Biblical Antiquities is an anonymous ancient Jewish retelling of biblical history, from Adam to King Saul, that adds speeches, prayers, and stories beyond the Bible. Readers come to it for its striking portraits of biblical figures and its account of how Israel’s failures test, but do not cancel, God’s covenant.
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Biblical Antiquities follows the history of humanity and Israel, beginning with Adam and moving through the ancestors, the Exodus, and the age of the judges toward Israel’s first king. It does not simply shorten the Bible. It passes quickly over some familiar passages.
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Questions about Pseudo-Philo: Biblical Antiquities
What does Pseudo-Philo add to the Bible?
Biblical Antiquities adds speeches, prayers, names, and episodes to its retelling of biblical history. Among its distinctive passages are Abraham’s resistance during the building of Babel and the expanded account of Jephthah’s daughter, named Seila. These additions place greater weight on motives, faithfulness, and difficult choices.
Who wrote Biblical Antiquities, and was it Philo?
The author is anonymous, not Philo of Alexandria. The name Pseudo-Philo reflects the work’s association with Philo in its transmission. Scholars generally regard it as a Jewish work from the first century CE, although they disagree about whether it predates or follows the Temple’s destruction in 70.
What language was Biblical Antiquities written in?
The work survives in Latin. Scholars generally think it was originally composed in Hebrew and reached Latin through a Greek version. The complete Hebrew and Greek texts do not survive, so the Latin text is the main basis for reading this ancient retelling.
Why isn’t Biblical Antiquities in the Bible?
Biblical Antiquities did not become part of the established Jewish or mainstream Christian biblical canons. It is an expanded retelling of scriptural history rather than one of those communities’ accepted scriptural books. Christian manuscript preservation nevertheless allowed this work of ancient Jewish interpretation to survive.