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Xxxxx’x intellectual milieu. Xxxxxx, Runia In the past, scholars have assigned Xxxxx to several philosophical schools, such as the Stoa or Platonism.109 Ideas and concepts stemming from different philosophical traditions can indeed be identified in Xxxxx’x works.110 What has 107 See Heinemann, Bildung, pp. 515–523, and also Tobin, Creation, p. 4, note 13 where Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx refers in agreement to the work of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, who wrote ‘C’est lorsque l’on fait d’un thème techniquement philosophique le centre de la recherche que l’on se heurte surtout à un éclectisme décourageant et à d’inextricables contradictions’ (see Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Commentaire, p. 237 and also references in Xxxxx, Timaeus, p. 366, note 2 and p. 512, note 200). 108 This approach is how a Philonic scholar like Xxxxxx solved the problem with the concept of God’s transcendence in Xxxxx’x works. Xxxxxx noted that the concept of God’s graceful providence is difficult to combine with Xxxxx’x statements on God’s transcendence (Völker, Fortschritt, p. 54). However, according to Xxxxxx, the tension should not be stressed too much. He maintained that the concept of God’s providence belongs to Xxxxx’x Jewish piety, which is always at the forefront of Xxxxx’x thought, and the concept of God’s transcendence simply takes a secondary position. 109 See Xxxxxx, Virtue, p. 148 for an overview of the different stances towards Xxxxx’x philosophical position that have been taken throughout the history of Philonic study. 110 The various philosophical ideas and concepts appearing in Xxxxx’x works have been catalogued by — Introduction — frustrated scholars, however, is that it turns out to be rather difficult to assign Philo to any one of these schools exclusively. Xxxxx used different concepts of different philosophical schools next to each other, apparently without noting any conflict between them.111 Such eclecticism has led some scholars to present Xxxxx as a thinker who used philosophical concepts as he saw fit without any concern for consistency.112 As was shown by Xxxx X. Xxxxxx (*1939), however, Xxxxx’x Alexandrian intellectual context provided him with a philosophical vocabulary in which the boundaries between various philosophical schools had already become blurred. Xxxxxx showed how shortly before Xxxxx’x time, Alexandrian intellectuals had attempted to harmonise the vocabulary of varying philosophical traditions. As an example, Xxxxxx put forward Xxxxxxx of Alexandria (fl. 60 BCE). Xxxxxxx devised a philosophical-histo...