Philo of Alexandria: an Interdisciplinary Study in the Fusion and diffusiton of Cultural Traditions

FAIN: RO-12511-76

Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA 94709-1212)
David S. Winston (Project Director: January 1976 to present)

To investigate the religious, philosophical and cultural synthesis 01 ideas represented by the works of Philo of Alexandria. The study aims to produce, as a paradigm, a detailed commentary on the pair of treatises entitled De Gigantibus-Quod-Deus, together with a number of special monographs that will probe the immediate influences on Philo's thought and impact upon Christian, Islamic, and Jewish religious thought.