Dalla tesi giudeo-ellenistica del "plagio" dei greci al concetto rabbínico del Verus Israel. Disputa sull'apparteneza della sofia
- Autores: Giuseppe Veltri
- Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 17, Nº. 1-2, 1992, págs. 85-104
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
In Jewish Hellenistic Literature the belief that the Jews were the first peoble to receive wisdom from God is often used to defend the originality of the Torah. According to this belief, pagan Hellenistic authors first be- came acquainted with certain ideas, inventions and discoveries (creation of the world, unity of God, invention of scripture etc.) by reading Jewish Scripture. This literary topos merely reflects an alleged pagan develop- ment of manyideas from Jewish sources and does not have the philosophical character of subsequent Chris- tian apologetic use of the topos according to which al1 (~sophia,) (philosophie, science, poetry) ontologically belonged to the Christians as Verus Israel. Rabbinic Judaism presupposed that the Jewish people possessed (e,ophia)) as gift (lorah), and interpreted this as something which distinguished the Jews from other peoples. However the Rabbis affirm that the ownership of the written Torah would not be enough to constitute the (drue Israel)); only the possession of the oral Law allowed them to claim the title of ((sons of God~
