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The recent survey by Farandos 7-149 fails to make good its title 'Geschichte der Philon-Forschung' through its manifest lack of discrimination and clarity.A bibliography of Philonic Studies (1935Studies ( -1975) and a 'critical and synthetic survey' of recent scholarship on Philo by E.Hilgert and P.Borgen respectively are promised in the forthcoming volume on Philo in ANRW due to appear in 1983.Also eagerly awaited is a critical bibliography on Philo being prepared by R.Radice (Luino).It will contain a section on 'works in progress'.(For further details see now the Bibliography.) Notes I 2.1. The monograph is rather difficult to consult because it lacks any form of index.I have prepared an index locorum of Philonic passages, which will be published in Studia Philonica. See further Nikiprowetzky 12. H.A.Wolfson, Philo: Foundations of religious philosophy in 11.Farandos 115-139, in distinguishing a 'Stoa-Richtung' and a 'PlatonRichtung' in Philonic scholarship, wrongly absolutizes the role of philosophy both in Philo's writings and in the research done on them. 12.It is interesting to observe that in his famous study of Spinoza's thought Wolfson also concluded that the Euclidean form of the Ethica was artificial, whereas most scholars consider the method more geométrico to be a deliberate formalization of Spinoza's radical rationalism. and applying it it analogically to various fields of existence (!).' Notes 22.The anti-anthropomorphic apology, the encomium, the reasoned allegory, the identification allegory, the development of a theme, the clarification of the literal meaning; see ibid.81-87. 23.Ibid.99-100. 24.Ibid.103-104. I regret having given the impression (Runia 140n.167) that Mack, by 'bracketing' the question of philosophy, regards it as unimpor tant for our understanding of Philo and the tradition of Alexandrian exegesis. He is primarily interested in the move from Jewish modes of thought uninflu enced by Hellenistic conceptuality to the kind of highly conceptualized thought found in Philo.Nevertheless I would wish to insist that the bracke ting of philosophical conceptualization in Philo's writings can only be done on the basis of assumptions on the nature of his thought (or that of his pre decessors) .It might well be the case that the combination of exegesis and philosophical conceptualization is what makes Hellenistic-Judaic thought dis tinctive . 25.Cf 31. This is indeed the title of the last chapter. Nikiprowetzky actually began his study as the first chapter of a work on the concept of light in the Septuagint, Philo, Plato and the Greek tradition.But the question of method be came so important that it developed into a book on its own. 32.Ibid.10-14 33.Ibid.14-26. 34.Ibid.40-44,50-81. 35.On the second-last page of the study (241) he asserts that Völker's work, despite its imperfections, presents an image of Philo which remains most faith ful to the texts and that it ushers in the truly modern period of Philonic re search. 36.Ibid.97-108. 37.Ibid.117-131, against Heinemsnn, Goodenough and others....

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