Philo of Alexandria - Books and Journals

x introduction
years), T. Seland (9 years) and D. Zeller (4 years). A special mention must
be made of the contribution of M. R. J. Hofstede, who throughout the
entire period covered by this volume has given splendid assistance to the
Project in the area of electronic database searching. In recent years, with
the growth of the internet, this method has become the primary way of
locating items of scholarship and reviews scattered across the globe.
The present volume has been compiled by D. T. Runia, with the
assistance of some of the members of the project team and of his two
research assistants, T. Primoratz and E. T. Jeremiah. The onerous task
of preparing the subject index was carried out by Ms Sydney Palmer;
the other sections of the indices were prepared by Ms Primoratz and Dr
Jeremiah.
2. Aim of the Present Work
The aim of the present bibliography is two-fold:
(1) To list and give a brief summary of all items of scholarly literature
published from 1997 to 2006 dealing directly with the thought and
writings of Philo of Alexandria.
(2) To add additional items which were omitted from the previous
bibliography for the years 1987 to 1996 and to correct mistakes in
the earlier volume. 3
a. Basic Method
3. Method of the Present Work
In all essential respects the present bibliography continues the method of
its predecessor. The chief features of this method are: 4
(1) Accurate listing of items based where possible on autopsy of the
original document; 5
3 In this volume, in contrast to its predecessor, no attempt has been made to list
reviews of books published prior to 1997 which could not be included in the previous
volume. Book reviews have been located through the searching of relevant databases (see
below §3(b) and n. 7), but the listing is likely to be very incomplete.
4 For further details see Introduction to R-R, pp. xi–xxii.
5 Some exceptions have to be made, e.g. dissertations (where the summaries are
based on published abstracts). In general slightly more use has been made in this