This volume gathers the proceedings of the Paris conference in Philonic studies (2017), consisting of 23 papers by contributors from 8 countries. Fifty years after the Lyon conference, it aimed at taking a retrospective look at the intellectual contexts and the academic fields in which Philonic studies have penetrated, as well as the ways in which they evolved.
The work of the Alexandrian became of major importance in the history of philosophy. It has been studied as a source of cultured Christianity, in connection with Second Temple Judaism and the Alexandrian Jewish community, but also in the context of research on rabbinic Judaism, New Testament and philosophy of the imperial era.
This book presents a retrospective overview of the development of Philonic studies after the seminal conference organised in Lyon in 1966. The essays highlight and reassess the major trajectories of research until today.
All interested in Jewish studies, ancient Christianity, ancient philosophy or more widely ancient history, including academics and specialized libraries.