Conflict in the Churches between the God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers
I. The Jewish Doctors: From Philo to Plotinus the Jewish teachers steadily deeschatologized and de-literalized the Scriptures. (N. Bentwich, Jewish Quarterly Review 4:1-21). “…the initiative in the attempt to stamp out orthodox Judaism and to hellenize the Jews was not taken by Antiochus, but by the influential body of hellenistic Jews.” (Oesterley, Apoc., 29). The …