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The Works of Philo: Greek Text with Morphology. Edited by Peder Borgen, Kare Fuglseth, and Roald Skarsten. Logos Bible Software Series X. Bellingham: Logos Library Systems, 2005. CD-ROM. $119.95.
NT scholars and students of second Temple Judaism have long known the importance of Philo. Hebrews and John are often compared with the language and concepts of Philo, and numerous other NT works use vocabulary or concepts that Philo also uses. The only reason that there are not more references to Philo in scholarly works is that in the past we often could not find the data without reading through his voluminous works in Greek ourselves. Thus we have often relied upon the information extracted by others, which means that we missed data. It is clear that we have needed a searchable form of Philo.
Logos Bible Software already had available The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged (trans. C. D. Yonge; Hendrickson, 1993). However, while that is certainly useful for (among other things) looking up and inserting quotations from Philo, it is a translation of Philo. Therefore, searching it did not reveal if a certain Greek word appeared in Philo with multiple meanings or if he used a certain grammatical construction. That deficit is remedied in the work under review, the result of the Philo Concordance Project, which was initiated by Peder Borgen and Roald Skarsten in the late 1960s at the University of Bergen and continues with ongoing...