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Philo not a Christian.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)

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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20040901
Author:Walsh, Robert R.

Dear Editor:

In your July-August 2004 issue, Andrew Holleran refers in his review of Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton, to "Christian figures like Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Philo of Alexandria."

Philo of Alexandria was Jewish, and never became Christian. According to The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was a "Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide the clearest view of this development of Judaism in the Diaspora." As an undergraduate at Harvard (where ...

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