Philo and "the salvation of the Lord" - "the name of the most excellent possible character" - Philippians 2:9

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Philippians 2:9-11 (AV)
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth,
and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

The Works of Philo Judŭs: The Contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2 (1894)
https://books.google.com/books?id=z1AzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA262

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The History of Joshua: Viewed in Connection with the Topography of Canaan, and the Customs of the Times in which He Lived (1862)
Thornley Smith
https://books.google.com/books?id=ljkZR4vbPcwC&pg=PA12

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1 That of Levi excepted, Num. xiii. 5-16.
2 Authenticity of the Pentateuch,’ vol. ii., p. 323.
3 History of the Old Covenant,’ iii., p. 284.
4 'On the Change of Scripture Names,’ xxi.
5 The Septuagint calls him (Greek) , which is also the name given him in Heb. iv. 8.
 
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Yakir Paz
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From Scribes to Scholars

Yakir Paz argues that ancient Homeric scholarship had a major impact on the formation of rabbinic biblical commentaries and their modes of exegesis. This impact is discernible not only in the terminology and hermeneutical techniques used by the rabbis, but also in their perception of the Bible...
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p. 55 and generally interesting but not the Philo quote
Christ Among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism (2012)
Matthew V. Novenson
https://books.google.com/books?id=naOG_qkeZBsC

Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible (2020)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of essays that provide resources for the interpretation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. The volume is not exhaustive in its coverage, but examines interpretive aspects of...
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Philo describes Moses’s joy when God picks Joshua to be his successor, due to Joshua’s
being “his most excellent pupil and the imitator of his amiable and excellent disposition”
(Virt. 66). Similarly, in his explanation for Moses changing Joshua’s name, Philo writes,
“Joshua means ‘the salvation of the Lord’ being the name of the most excellent possible
character” (Mut. 122). In short, Joshua is generically “excellent” but only interesting insofar
as he mirrors and continues Moses’s legacy.

Minor ref
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The Gospel & the Zodiac

“Darlison elucidates the zodiac’s significant place in the Gospels, most specifically in the Book of Mark . . . An intriguing leap into faith” (Kirkus Reviews). For millennia the world has been driven by the differences between the great patriarchal religions. Western civilization—or...
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BCHF - some of this is EXCELLENT

The name change to Jesus/Joshua
https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5637'

Philippians 2.5-11: 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bondservant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name [ἐχαρίσατο αὐτῷ τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ὑπὲρ πᾶν ὄνομα], 10 so that at the name of Jesus [ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ] every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Hebrews 1.1-4: 1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they [ὅσῳ διαφορώτερον παρ᾽ αὐτοὺς κεκληρονόμηκεν ὄνομα].

Origen, Homilies on Joshua 1: 1 God gave the name that is above every name to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For this name that is above every name is Jesus. ....

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Allegory of an Allegory – Paul on Philo
https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1826
 
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Some more blogs and commentary

"means the salvation of the lord" "philo"
https://www.google.com/search?q="me...CCLACAfEF_Zw9cwgug-Y&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Some need download!

Mishkan
What’s in Jesus’ Name According to Matthew?
Kai Kjær-Hansen
https://www.kaikjaerhansen.dk/wp-co...9-Whats-in-Jesus-Name-Accoring-to-Matthew.pdf

If the angel of the Lord had been a “dictionary angel,” I suppose he would have said – as Philo, the Alexandrine philosopher, did – that Jesus means “the salvation of the Lord” or something like “the one by whom the Lord saves.” He does not. But there is an important addition which transcends an etymological explanation of the name of Jesus. This addition is in the words “from their sins.”

He, Mary’s child, might be expected to be the one who would save his people from the Romans. But he is not. He is to save his people “from their sins.” This addition makes explicit the nature of the salvation which the name of Jesus implies. It is not something which just flows smoothly from Matthew’s pen. This has been carefully contemplated. Revealed “codes” always are.

In the words of the Swedish New Testament scholar Birger Gerhardsson:

This is not an unaffected, natural phrase that flowed of its own accord from the pen of the evangelist. It is a carefully formed pronouncement showing how he apprehends the kind of salvation indicated by the name of Jesus.5

5 Birger Gerhardsson, The Mighty Acts of Jesus according to Matthew (Lund: LiberLäromedel/ Gleerup, 1979), 77.
 
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PBF threads that focus on Philo in the title:

Philo, the Trinity and Genesis 1:26
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/philo-the-trinity-and-genesis-1-26.2023/

New Testament early dating, synoptics, Wenham, Theophilus, Philo and much more
Posts 3,4,5
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...s-wenham-theophilus-philo-and-much-more.1016/

Philo and "the salvation of the Lord" - "the name of the most excellent possible character" - Philippians 2:9
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...le-character-philippians-2-9.5161/#post-22048

See also this post where Philo is said to be baptized:

Matthew 28:19 - additional references
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/matthew-28-19-additional-references.1024/#post-6193
 
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