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The “Catechetical” School of Early Christian Alexandria and Its Philonic Heritage
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For centuries, the so-called catechetical school in Alexandria has intrigued scholars and stimulated speculation on its origins and early practices. The relationship of this school to Jewish-Hellenistic antecedents has made the problem doubly fascinating. Hypotheses about the school, however, have sometimes far exceeded the limits of the scanty information surviving in ancient authors, who themselves had incomplete evidence for their reconstructions. Without presenting here yet another theory on the school's early configuration, one must offer some kind of assessment before drawing Philo into the discussion, since his relation to the school obviously presents an extra complication.
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- Authors
- van den Hoek, A.
- Venue
- Harvard Theological Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1997-01
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 59-87
- ISSN
- 0017-8160 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-4517
- OpenAlex
- W2097381578
- Cited by
- 260
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 18.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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