Posted: Jan 31, 2012 1:20 pm
Rick wrote:
Philo leaves us in fact a sizeable body of work, Blood - different sources claim 850 000 words and thirty manuscripts.
Yes, it's substantial, but far from complete. We can never say for sure that Philo didn't mention Jesus and/or Christians unless we were reasonably confident we had his complete works.
Also, Philo's preservation by the church is a counter-argument to the forgery of the TF, since Eusebius and company would have had every reason to interpolate a few Jesus references into the works of the great Philo.