seems to integrate creation at a lower level.) Philo did not want to leave the biblical history out of account, and he aimed to tie protology to his present day by means of Israel’s history.31 God is (Leg. 1.18) continually creative because the world decays. Salvation history is part of providence, and it provides lessons: the patriarch Joseph is a type of Moses, and what their characters have in common is valuable. In other words, Philo’s is an Old Testament-informed view of history, and one wonders