Samuel Sandmell, ‘Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction’

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle. Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction. By Samuel Sandmell. Oxford University Press. £7.50. Philo of Alexandria, contemporary of Hillel, Gamaliel, Jesus and Paul, and one of the most influential figures in the history of religious thought, appears neither in the Talmudic literature nor in any of the traditional Jewish sources until…