Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-220) and indexes.
The outlook of primitive man: beginnings of a theory -- The recovery of primitive wisdom in early stoicism -- Primitive wisdom and stoic exegesis after Posidonius -- Antiquity in Graeco-Egyptian anti-Semitism -- Antiquity in Jewish apologetic -- The authority of Plato and primitive wisdom -- Divergence and disagreement: the Platonist alternative to scepticism -- The invention of Hebraeo-Christian orthodoxy -- The 'dependency theme'