Philo of Alexandria

(c. 20 BCE? - d. Egypt after 40 CE).

 URLs and academic resources- bibliography.

Studia Philonica. An academic Journal devoted to Philo studies:

 Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism , ed. David T. Runia . Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press.

Philo of Alexandria BLOG archive:

Radice, Roberto, David T. Runia. 

  • Philo of Alexandria: An Annotated Bibliography 1937-1986 (Supplements to Vigiliae Christinae, Vol 8). Brill Academic Publishers, 1988 +  Rep. 1997. (470pp.).

Feldman, L.H.

  • ‘’Scholarship on Philo and Josephus,’’The Classical World 54 (1960/61): 281-291; 55 (1961/62): 36ff.

Hilgert, E.

  • ‘’Bibliographia Philoniana, 1935-1981.’’ ANRW II. 21.1. pp. 47-97.

     

TEXTS AND TRANSLATION

Online Texts of Philo:

Philo.  Eng. trans. and ed. F. C. Colson et al. 12 vols.; Loeb Classical Library (=LCL); Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1929-62) Greek texts and English trans.

David Winston and John Dillon,

  • Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, the Giants, and Selections. New York: Paulist, 1981. *

Yonge, C. D.

  • The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, original edition 1854-5.

  • The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1993. This updated edition is "exceedingly full of typographical errors". *

Peder Borgen, Roald Skarsten, Kare Fuglseth

  • Philo Index: A Complete Greek Word Index to the Writings of Philo of Alexandria.  (371pp.) Eerdmans Pub Co ,1999  ISBN = 0802838839

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General Bibliography

 

Borgen, Peder.

  • Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time, Leiden:  Brill Academic Pub.,  1997 (332 pp.) ISBN = 9004103880.

Goodenough, Erwin Ramsdell

  • An Introduction to Philo Judaeus. Oxford: Blackwell, 1962.*

Goodenough,  Erwin Ramsdell + Howard Lehman Goodhart,

  • The politics of Philo Judaeus, practice and theory, with a general bibliography of Philo by Howard L. Goodhart and Erwin R. Goodenough New Haven, Yale University Press: London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938  (pp. xii, 348 p.). *
     

Hecht, Richard D.

  • "Philo and Messiah," in  Judaisms and their Messiahs , ed. Neusner et al. (see 0.3 above)

Jewish Encyclopedia

 Runia,  David T.

  • Philo of Alexandria and the 'Timaeus' of Plato.  Leiden: Brill, 1986.
  • Philo of Alexandria: On the Creation of the Cosmos According to Moses, Leiden:  Brill Academic Pub., 2002 / (443 pp.) ISBN=   9004121692

 

Sandmel, Samuel

  •  Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.  *

Taylor , Joan E.

  • Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered. Oxford Univ. Press,  2006  Ppk  (417pp.) ISBN = 0199291411

Harry Austryn Wolfson, 

  • Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  2nd ed.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948. *

Wolfson, H. A.

  • Philo Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism. rev. ed. Harvard Univ Press HB., 1975 .  ISBN= 0674664507