Philo and the Oral Law: The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah. By Samuel Belkin, Assistant Professor of Hellenistic and Rabbinic Literature, Yeshiva College. [Harvard Semitic Series.] (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1940. Pp. xiv, 292. $3.50.) and An Introduction to Philo Judaeus. By Erwin R. Goodenough, Professor of the History of Religion, Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1940. Pp. xii, 223. $2.75.)