The Works of Philo (new ed.)

Complete and Unabridged. New Updated Version.Now the translation of
the eminent classicist C. D. Yonge is available in an affordable, easy-to-read
edition, with a new foreword and newly translated passages, and containing
supposed fragments of Philo's writings from ancient authors such as John of
Damascus. The title and arrangement of the writings have been standardized
according to scholarly conventions.
A contemporary of Paul and Jesus, Philo
Judaeus, of Alexandria, Egypt, is unquestionably among the most important
writers for historians and students of Hellenistic Judaism and early
Christianity. Although Philo does not explicitly mention Jesus, or Paul, or any
of the followers of Jesus, Philo lived in their world. It is from Philo, for
example, that we learn about how, like the Gospel of John, Jews (and Greeks) in
the Greco-Roman world spoke of the creative force of God as God's 'Logos.'
Philo, too, employs interpretive strategies that parallel those of the author
of Hebrews. Most scholars would agree that Philo and the author of Hebrews are
drawing from the same, or at least similar, traditions of Hellenistic Judaism.
With these kind of connections to the world of Judaism and early Christianity,
Philo cannot be ignored.Translator: C.D. Yonge.