and has no need for classical culture. But we would err badly if we deduced from these texts that Jerome and the other fathers who make similar pronouncements viewed classical culture as antithetical to Christianity. Similarly, we cannot deduce from Maccabean and rabbinic ideology and rhetoric the real relationship of Judaism to Hellenism. Nor can we generalize from Paul, that very unusual Jew. This conception of Hellenism implies a definition of “Hellenistic Judaism.” All the varieties of Judaism