eliminate the dissonance.68 Perhaps the simplest way to do this was by abandoning Judaism altogether. Philo’s nephew, Tiberius Julius Alexander, is the most notorious example.69 There were Jews who exercised this option, but they were always a minority. The majority sought ways to reduce the dissonance while remaining Jewish but without rejecting Hellenistic culture.70 We will observe the various ways in which Jews accomplished this in the following chapters. Essentially, dissonance is reduced by