Nas conclusões da sua obra, Philo and Paul Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement, Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002, Segunda Edição, pp. 246-247, Bruce Winter regista o seguinte:
“Alexandre’s work on Rhetorical Argumentation in Philo of Alexandria, has provided a secure basis on which to evaluate his indebtedness to his rhetorical education, confirming what he himself said about it. Alexandre noted his role as head of the embassy of the Jews of Alexandria to Gaius which confirms his capability as a public orator, a role normally undertaken in the first century by sophists. Philo’s facilty in rhetoric is certainly reflected in his writings. After subjecting his corpus to a detailed and scholarly analysis, Alexandre concludes that he ‘benefited from an excellent rhetorical education, and that he not only mastered this branch of knowledge but also used the most diverse structures of argumentation’ (p. 248). He also observes that ‘In the logical argumentation of a thesis, as in the elaborate development of a theme, there is apparently no model or structure sanctioned by the rhetorical conventions that Philo did not make use of or strategically adapt to his literary project….”
A propósito do autor desta sua citação, Bruce Winter escreve no prefácio o seguinte: “Since 1997 studies on rhetorical argumentation in Philo… have been greatly enhanced by the translation from Portuguese of the magisterial work of M. Alexandre Jr., Rhetorical Argumentation in Philo of Alexandria (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998). His work is invaluable in confirming the importance of rhetorical argumentation, as are his observations on Philo’s comments on its misuse by its promoters, i.e., the sophists, in the first half of the first century A.D.” (p. x)