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I have a chapter in my book, A Brief Guide to Philo , showing parallels between Philo and the New Testament. I continue to believe that my...

Today we reach the end of  Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria , edited by Torrey Seland. Introduction Philo the Jew Phil...

Only one chapter today of  Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria , edited by Torrey Seland. Three more chapters by the end of t...

Only one chapter today of  Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria , edited by Torrey Seland. Three more chapters by the end of t...

Two more chapters today here of  Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria , edited by Torrey Seland. Four more chapters by Thursda...

Continuing my review of  Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria , edited by Torrey Seland. My goal is to finish this fine book b...

Continuing my review of Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria , edited by Torrey Seland. Introduction Philo the Jew 1. Tor...

A couple months ago I started reviewing Torrey Seland's edited text, Reading Philo . I need to finish reading it in the next couple w...

Fond fragments of memories past peek into my consciousness as I begin Torey Seland's Reading Philo: A Handbook of Alexandria . It has ...

I was incredibly delighted to get a copy of James Colbert's new translation of Jean Daniélou's classic introduction to Philo, Philo ...

David Runia has announced that the premier journal dedicated to the study of Philo, the Studia Philonica Annual , has entered into rest at Y...

My thanks to the Intertextuality and the New Testament unit at SBL for letting me present a paper yesterday. My goal was to catalog some of ...

1. The church at Antioch is vibrant.  Look at its prophets !  Agabas predicts a severe famine that will sweep the Roman Empire and, apparent...

... continued from way back when _______________________ B. Three Statements in Summary Summary Grudem captures the orthodox doctrine of...

... is one where he gives one of his most personal asides.  It is at the beginning of his third treatise exploring all the "specific la...

I recently reviewed Adam Kamesar's (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Philo  for the American Journal of Philology .  It occurred to me th...

Interesting quote from Adam Kamesar's chapter on "Biblical Interpretation in Philo." Here is dealing with that fairly unique ...

I posted previously on Danny Schwartz's first chapter on Philo's life. Here let me give notice of chapter 2, by James Royse (appar...

I'm reading The Cambridge Companion to Philo , edited by Adam Kamesar of Hebrew Union, for a review. Finished the first chapter, "P...

I attended the Philo Group this morning... most people have no idea how smart a human being can be (and, interestingly, are usually equally ...