In this new English translation and commentary of Philo's On the Life of Abraham Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon show how and why this unique biography displays Philo's philosophical, exegetical, and literary genius at its best.
Ellen Birnbaum, Ph.D. (1992, Columbia University), is author of The Place of Judaism in Philo's Thought: Israel, Jews, and Proselytes (Scholars Press, 1996) and several other studies of Philo and the ancient Alexandrian Jewish community. John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. His chief publications are in the area of the Platonic tradition, but he has also published extensively on Philo, and in the field of Patristics.
