Sammendrag
Magic was a pervading issue in the Greco-Roman world at the time of Philo. Reading Philo's works, we realize that he too was familiar with various practices of magic in his social world of Alexandria. Scholarly studies of the phenomenon of magic and magical practices as reflected in the works of Philo are, however, very rare. The present study will try to remedy some of this lack of research by focusing on some aspects of magic, and especially on the exposition of the Balaam episode in the works of Philo. In the first section is given a brief review of relevant issues discussed in recent studies on ancient magic; then in the following sections Philo's vocabulary of magic is investigated, and then an exposition of the Balaam figure is given.
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