Philo About the Contemplative Life, or the Fourth Book of the Treatise Concerning Virtues: Critically Edited With a Defence of Its Genuineness (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Excerpt from Philo About the Contemplative Life, or the Fourth Book of the Treatise Concerning Virtues: Critically Edited With a Defence of Its Genuineness

Any such hypothesis ignores the philological affinities of the piece, as well as all the circumstances of its trans mission to us in the manuscripts and in ancient versions. It conflicts with chronology, rests upon wholesale mis understanding of the text, and presupposes conditions of pseud-epigraphic authorship which never did and never could exist. That it should be rapidly stereotyping itself among scholars is indicative of a prevalent and regrettable ignorance of Philo's writings; and it was in the hope of being able to correct an error which is the inversion of three centuries of religious history, that I undertook six years ago, at the instance of Professor L. Mmebieau of Paris, the present edition. If he had kept his health and strength, he would have himself followed up his excellent monograph1 with a critical edition of the Creek text.

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