this which is becoming increasingly popular property it is unwise to over-dramatize it, for example by quoting only one of several Greek traditions (usually the Pythagorean-Platonic) for the idea of the soul, or by comparing Hebrew historians not with Greek historians but with the more mythological parts of the Greek philosophers. Our interest here however is in the connections made between the contrast outlined above, which was a contrast of ways of thinking, and the differences between the Greek