Surviving Works of Philo of Alexandria (Vol. 7 - Indices)

PROLEGOMENA VII

I believe these passages can be most easily retrieved from the indices of names and the indices of Old Testament locations. Since I determined to compile an index rather than a lexicon of the entire Philonic language, it did not seem necessary to transcribe all the existing locations where a certain word appears. To these words, I have added the cross sign (×) so that it might be understood whether all locations or only selected ones were brought forward, through which the various meanings assigned to individual words would appear. Since this volume is a part of the critical edition overseen by Leopold Cohn and Paul Wendland, I follow the text of this edition as well as its page and line numbers. Sometimes, however, I have accepted certain words from the critical apparatus. I could not consider the fragments of Philo not published in this edition.

It remains for me to thank from my heart all those who, for almost twelve years, kindly assisted me in completing this work with their labor, counsel, and generosity. I owe the greatest thanks to my wife, who for so many years, with the utmost care, arranged two hundred thousand index cards in alphabetical order and assisted me in examining the proofs fresh from the press. I also owe much to Maximilian Adler, who applied great diligence in correcting the galleys. I then recall with a most grateful heart the memory of the deceased men, Leopold Cohn and Hermann Diels, by whose guidance and assistance it came about that this work was undertaken. To these, I add the names of the scholars Ulrich Wilcken and Henry Cadbury, who deserve great credit for the completion of this book. Finally, I offer my greatest thanks to the Jewish Institute of Religion, which is in New York, to whose generosity it is owed that this volume, brought to an end after many years of long labor, is now finally published.

I was writing in Leipzig
1925

Johannes Leisegang.