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  • Chapter 1 - Theories of Prophecy in Philo of Alexandria

  • from Part I - Philosophical Perspectives on Divination, Revelation, and Prophecy
  • Edited by Elsa Giovanna Simonetti, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Claire Hall, University of Durham
  • Book:
    Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 17-31

  • Summary

    While scholarship has always underlined Philo’s debt to the preceding philosophical tradition, this chapter instead intends to shed light on his critical attitude towards some key traditional aspects of prophecy and divination endorsed by Graeco-Roman thinkers. This contribution thus explores which kinds of prophecy, inside and outside the Scriptures, are dangerous and impious according to Philo, and why. Special focus is laid on: the conceptual categories of ‘truth’, ‘authority’, and ‘appropriate time’ – crucial and widespread notions in the debates on prophecy at the turn of the millennium – and on the complex relation between contingency and transcendence in Philo’s thought.