Philo and the New Testament

I would like to write a few words about a recent publication of mine, a kind of spin-off result from the Norwegian Philo Concordance Project.

It is a comparison of all Greek words in Philo and the New Testament. I have written a report on the comparison in the Festschrift to Peder Borgen last year Neotestamentica et Philonica. I followed up on this study by publishing a list of common words in Philo and the New Testament on Mellen Press A Comparison of Greek Words in Philo and the New Testament.
Other scholars have earlier studied hapax legomena in the two corpora, but today, with advanced personal computers, more thorough studies are made possible and affordable.

The statistical comparison shows great similarities particularly between John and Philo and Hebrews and Philo. This is not a big surprise, of course, but nevertheless - now it is also statistically demonstrated. Further comparisons in these tracks are naturally possible; the next step would perhaps be to include LXX.