David Winston (1927-), scholar

David Winston (b.1927) is an American scholar, emeritus at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA), USA.

Biography

Born in 1927. Professor of Hellenistic and Judaic Studies at the University of Judaism, Los Angeles, and then, at the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley from 1966.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Wisdom of Solomon (Garden City 1979)
• Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life; The Giants; and, Selections (1981 Winston), book
• Logos and mystical theology in Philo of Alexandria (1985 Winston), book
• The Ancestral Philosophy: Hellenistic Philosophy in Second Temple Judaism (Providence 2001)