Judaism and the Greek thought-forms of the age. In keeping with other Jewish writings of this time it incorporates a powerful polemic against the Gentiles and upholds as the true religion that revealed through God’s servanst Moses. An outstanding example of Hellenistic Judaism is to be found in the Alexandrian Jewish writer Philo who was a contemporary of Jesus and of Paul. He was well read not only in the Hebrew Scriptures but in the Jewish Hellenistic writings and in the Greek philosophies as well.