THE BIBLICAL ANTIQUITIES OF PHILO NOW FIRST TRANSLATED FROM THE OLD LATIN VERSION

"This book, dating from the late first century C.E. (after the destruction of the second temple, 70 C.E.) is attributed to the Jewish writer Philo. However, most scholars agree that it was not written by Philo, and it is hence sometimes called ''Pseuophilo''. Consisting of a retelling of the Hebrew Bible from Genesis to the end of 1 Samuel, Biblical Antiquities embellishes and often departs from the narrative as we know it today in small and large details. A little early to be called Midrash, Biblical Antiquities is one of the ''pseudepigrapha'', writings on traditional Biblical subjects which were never canonized."