The Works of Philo

Greek Text with Morphology

Peder Borgen

Kåre Fuglseth

Roald Skarsten

About This Edition

A Note About the Morphological Analysis and Lemmatisation

The morphological analysis contained in this edition is under revision. Forms that are ambiguous or contextually uncertain are in the process of being reviewed. An updated form of this resource will be made available at no cost via download upon completion of the extended analysis.

The Greek Textual Basis

The Works of Philo: Greek Text with Morphology is a product of the Norwegian ‘Philo Concordance Project’, a project headed by Peder Borgen (University of Trondheim). Other participants in the project have been Roald Skarsten (University of Bergen) and Kåre Fuglseth (University of Trondheim).

The text base of The Works of Philo: Greek Text with Morphology is established on two text editions:

1. Leopold Cohn and Paul Wendland (eds.), 1896–1915, Philonis Alexandrini opera quae supersunt. G. Reimer, Berlin.

2. F. H. Colson, 1941, Hypothetica and De Providentia in the Philo–edition of the Loeb Classical Library (volume IX), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and William Heinemann, London.

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:

1970–73: A machine–readable text of Philo’s writings was assembled based on the text in the Cohn–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 text–forms (‘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.

1990–93: 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 co–operated 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.

1993–2000: 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).

2000: The Philo Index, a word index based on the work of the Philo Concordance Project, was jointly published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ...