Abstract

Although the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria is not the first author who wrote about the Holy Scripture in a Greek way, it is for certain that both his comprehensive opera and Alexandrian hermeneutics 'translated' the Israelite tradition, which was until then sealed off from the rest of the world - into the universal philosophical language, announcing the Biblical religion to the entire oekoumene. It is in Philo's opera that the Biblical tradition is for the first time systematically intertwined with Platonism and other Hellenistic streams, and the Covenant between Yahweh and Israel is transformed into a universal God-man relationship, where you no longer find either a Jew or a Greek. The article stresses the importance of Philo's philosophy and his allegorical exegesis of the Bible, and also reveals the background and the reason for his reading and understanding of the Hebrew Scripture. It has been proved that Philo's exegesis exerted a great influence on Early Christian hermeneutics and theology