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art and philosophy began to be admired and studied by
the Jewish doctors of the law both in Palestine and in
Egypt, where they had a very numerous community. The
penetration of the Greek thought and belles-lettres into the
Jewish schools alarmed their priests and learned men. In
fact, Hebrew was so much neglected that the Scriptures
were read in the Alexandrian Synagogues in the Septuagint
Version. This invasion by a foreign knowledge, however,
moved the Jews to make a better study of their own law,
and to defend it against the inauspicious new spirit. They
endeavored, therefore, to find a new method for the in-
terpretation of the Bible in order to enable the possibility
of a "rapprochement" and reconciliation of the Biblical truths
with the Hellenic thought. For their former method of a
literal interpretation of the law was felt to be unworkable
the Jewish doctors of the law both in Palestine and in
Egypt, where they had a very numerous community. The
penetration of the Greek thought and belles-lettres into the
Jewish schools alarmed their priests and learned men. In
fact, Hebrew was so much neglected that the Scriptures
were read in the Alexandrian Synagogues in the Septuagint
Version. This invasion by a foreign knowledge, however,
moved the Jews to make a better study of their own law,
and to defend it against the inauspicious new spirit. They
endeavored, therefore, to find a new method for the in-
terpretation of the Bible in order to enable the possibility
of a "rapprochement" and reconciliation of the Biblical truths
with the Hellenic thought. For their former method of a
literal interpretation of the law was felt to be unworkable