DIGITAL EDITIONS OF THE CONCORDANCE AVAILABLE:

PalmBible+

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Logos Bible Software: The Works of Philo

Accordance (Mac)

BibleWorks

These publishers also intend to complete the morphological analysis of the texts.

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History of the Project

The Philo Concordance Project was initiated by Peder Borgen and Roald Skarsten already in the late 1960s at the University of Bergen when the use of computers in the Humanities was still in its infancy. The project has been funded by the Norwegian Council for Research in the Humanities and it has developed in three stages:

1) 1970 to 1973
A machine­readable text of Philo's writings was assembled based on the text in the Cohn and Wendland edition of Philo manuscripts, and a Key Word In Context (KWIC) concordance was produced by Roald Skarsten. In this concordance the words were organised mechanically, on the basis of the Greek alphabetic order of the text­forms ("tokens"). Two copies were printed in 1974, typed with Greek letters.

Later, some words were completely lemmatised and tagged in context and all words were automatically organised based upon this initial lemmatisation and tagging by Roald Skarsten.

2) 1990 to 1993
On the initiative of Peder Borgen, the Norwegian Council for Research in the Humanities, decided in 1989 to fund the completion of the project. Kåre Fuglseth, Roald Skarsten and Richard Holton Pierce co­operated in developing new programs, the words not lemmatised initially were lemmatised, and Kåre Fuglseth checked all the words. The texts of Hypothetica, De Providentia and the Quaestiones fragments including the unidentified fragments were added, lemmatised and tagged.

3) After 1993
The database was further checked and corrected and a preliminary printout with vocabulary and references was produced from the database in 1997 by Kåre Fuglseth and published by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Trondheim (NTNU). The text of Quaestiones in Genesim from Paramelle was included into the database and lemmatised. The database was later completely published both digitally and in print. Texts that earlier were electronically copied have been re-entered into the database.

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Did Philo write the De Aeternitate Mundi? Summary of conclusions by Prof. Roald Skarsten. The conclusions are to a large extent based upon statistical material from our Philo Concordance Project database.

 Publications

#1 Peder Borgen, Kåre Fuglseth and Roald Skarsten, The Philo Index. A Complete Greek Word Index to the Writings of Philo of Alexandria, Lemmatised & Computer-Generated. UNITREL STUDIESERIE nr. 25. Trondheim, Norway 1997. 350 pages including introduction, paperback, ISBN 82-7546-026-3.

This first published index is now out of print: However, W. B. Eerdmans has republished it in a joint venture with E.J. Brill, now with new fragments included: The Philo Index

Book review by James K. Aitken

#2 Peder Borgen, Kåre Fuglseth and Roald Skarsten, Analytisk ordbok til Filons greske skrifter (Analytical Lexicon to the Greek writings of Philo). Trondheim 1997 (10 copies, private use only). All tokens and lemmas with grammatical tagging and short explanations in English and Norwegian. 

#3 Kåre Fuglseth with a Preface by Peder Borgen Philo and the New Testament. A Computer-Generated Comparison of Words. E. Mellen Press 2003.

#4 Complete digital versions: Logos Research Systems, Accordance/Oak Tree Software and Bible Works have published the complete KWIC-concordance to Philo.

#5 Gorgias Press has published a printed KWIC concordance. Here is a sample (50 of 7500 total pages). The Complete Works of Philo of Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance  R. Skarsten, P. Borgen og K. Fuglseth. Volume I-VIII (7556 pages).  Gorgias Press, New Jersey, USA, 2005.