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Encyclopedia Britannica



ARISTOBULUS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 497 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARISTOBULUS , of Paneas (c. 16o B.C.), a Jewish philosopher of the Peripatetic school. Gercke places him in the time of
Ptolemy
  X. Philometor (end of 2nd
century
 ), Anatolius in that of
Ptolemy
  II. Philadelphus, but the middle of the 2nd
century
  is more probable. He was among the earliest of the Jewish-Alexandrian philosophers whose aim was to reconcile and identify Greek philosophical conceptions with the Jewish religion. Only a few fragments of his
work
 , apparently entitled Commentaries on the Writings of Moses, are quoted by Clement,
Eusebius
  and other theological writers, but they suffice to show its object. He endeavoured to prove that early Greek philosophers had
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borrowed largely from certain parts of Scripture, and quoted from
Linus
 , Orpheus,
Musaeus
  and others, passages which strongly resemble the Mosaic writings. These passages, however, were obvious forgeries. It is suggested that the name Aristobulus was taken from 2 Macc. i. ro. The hypothesis (Schlatter, Das neugefundene hebraische Stuck des Sirach) that it was from Aristobulus that the philosophy of Ecclesiasticus was derived is not generally accepted.
See E. Scharer, History of the Jewish
People
  (Eng. trans., 1890-1891), ii. 237 seq.; article ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL: Philosophy; and s.v. " Aristobulus " in Jewish Encyclopedia (Paul Wendland).


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