O próprio e o comum rastros da interculturalidade na escrita de Fílon de Alexandria: rastros da interculturalidade na escrita de Fílon de Alexandria

Abstract

This dissertation establishes a reflection about the ways in which the interculturality produced leads in the work of Philo of Alexandria, Greek speaker Jewish exegete who lived in the first half of I C.E.. The notions of own and common are considered specially relevant to this study, as they are brought to the text in the intercultural negotiation which Philo develops in his writing. At first, I establish initial reflections on Philo's thought, developed in dialogue with selected passages from the Hebrew Bible, about three different subjects. Chapter 1 deals with the question of alterity in face of the Egyptians. Chapter 2 is about the difference betweenDiaspora and Exile, and the Philo's perspective on the idea of a return of the Jews to Judea. In chapter 3, I study the idea of the conversion of non-Jewish people to Judaism. In the second part of this dissertation, two big chapters approach different kinds of intercultural trails foundin occurrences of the intertextuality in Philo's text. Chapter 4 studies quotations and other more subtle references to Greek authors in a number of Philo's treatises. In chapter 5, I analyze the appropriation of characteristics of a literary and spectacular genre proper of the Greeks, the tragedy (then, I propose the notion of trajic, in order to explain this phenomenon originated from the Jewish appropriation of the tragic). The hypothesis which goes through all this dissertation is that in the diverse appropriations which Philo makes from the Greek cultural heritage, there is no unthinking submission to Hellenic culture, but an attentive negotiation which recognizes as necessary the configuration of limits of the own and, simultaneously, the recognizing of common elements.