(May 29, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Perhaps "they" copied Philo? We know that there was intellectual tension between Hellenized Jews and, let's call them "fundie" jews as far back as the Seleucid Empire days.
Remember the times, First Century Egypt. While people did do a lot of traveling it's highly doubtful that the writings of some nut in dusty Egypt flittered around the Med influencing pockets of people. No copy machines, typewriters, newspapers, phones, radio, tv, internet. I gotta call fraud on Philo.
