Author

Philo of Alexandria(c. 20 BCE–c. 50 CE)

Philo of Alexandria is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks and manuscripts (1835–1841). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Notebook January 1835, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Notebooks · Manuscripts
Documented: 1835–1841

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Philo never mentions Nehemiah. Ruth / Esther, Chronicles, Daniel, Jeremiah. the / Preacher or Solomon's song. / According to Philo the canon of / the Egyptian Jews comprised / 5 books of Moses.”

Notebook January 1835 · 1835

When Fuller engaged with Philo of Alexandria

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1835—

Notebook January 1835

pp. 12–13, 25

mentionedManuscript page

“Philo never mentions Nehemiah. Ruth / Esther, Chronicles, Daniel, Jeremiah. the / Preacher or Solomon's song.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller names 'Philo' and records his specific opinions about the canon of the Egyptian Jews, including which books Philo mentions and which he does not. This is standard material from Philo's writings (especially the Quaestiones in Genesim / De Vita Mosis), cited by Eichhorn as evidence for the Alexandrian canon.

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p17

mentioned

“Philo-Judaeus, Swedenborg, Origen, Fenelon, Boethius, Madame Guyon, Mirandola, Dante, Petrarca, More, Cudworth, Norris.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).