15 Armenian Philonic Corpus

This chapter accounts for the nearly one-fifth of the extant works of Philo that have reached us by way of a sixth-century Armenian translation, including substantial parts of QG and QE as well as the complete “dialogues” with Tiberius Julius Alexander. The Armenian corpus also includes works the Greek of which is extant, and these provide a valuable control over the Greek text, having been translated in a predominantly interlinear fashion from a text that predates the extant Greek manuscripts. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of the Philonic influence on medieval Armenian authors, focusing on certain works by Gregory of Narek (d. 1003) as an example.