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is right and Philo stayed at least three years in Rome (38–41 CE) and possibly wrote a large part of his oeuvre there, this would enhance our otherwise fragmentary picture of Roman Judaism of the first half of the first century CE. Niehoff has written an impressively learned book with a strong thesis. Few scholars have dared to write a monograph on Philo and to try to track down Philo’s whole “intellectual” life. And even if not all readers will be convinced by her main thesis, all will be impressed by Niehoff’s enormous knowledge and profit from this very first intellectual biography of Philo.