Philo's Scriptures: Citations from the Prophets and Writings : Evidence for a Haftarah Cycle in Second Temple Judaism
It
is indeed remarkable that although Philo has quoted extensively from
the Pentateuch, his works contain no more than forty-six references to
the Prophets and Writings. The author provides a convincing explanation
for every one of these citations. It corroborates the thesis that Philo
availed himself of lexicographic aids and midrashic material, and
further, that even when the language of their composition was
Hebrew/Aramaic, that he used them in Greek translation. It identifies a
circle engaged in esoteric philosophic allegorization of Scriptures,
with which Philo associated, and it finds that the specific quotations
from the Prophets point to the existence, already in the 1st century CE,
of a traditional Haftarah Cycle. The book fills a long felt lacuna.
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