used here to designate a literary genre,13 but rather refers only to the content. Moreover there is no corresponding “mythological part” (μυθολογικόν)—which is an impossibility for Philo. Since the genealogies are mentioned together with “myths,” they cannot, in this passage, refer to the Jewish proof for kinship of Abraham, nor to the demonstration of Israel’s historical continuity. Neither Paul nor a pseudo-Paul could mention such things in the same breath with “fables.” Kittel has pointed out