To: Brumar89 who wrote (61972 ) 11/4/2014 8:48:47 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to You sure have the empty sanctimonious 'preachy' replies down to a jerky art form & never disappoint. Maimonides is way down to 1200AD, you can easily go back to 200BC when Hellene influence was absolutely overwhelming in shaping Jewish thought.ARISTOTLE IN JEWISH LEGEND ( Regarded as a Jew.) :jewishencyclopedia.com As the Greek who most impressed his influence upon the development of the Jewish mind, Aristotle is one of the few Gentiles with whom Jewish legend concerns itselfIn the circles where the antagonism of Judaism and Hellenism was known and understood, Aristotle was reported by tradition to have said: "I do not deny the revelation of the Jews, seeing that I am not acquainted with it; I am occupied with human knowledge only and not with divine" (Judah ha-Levi, "Cuzari," iv. 13; v. 14). But when Aristotelianism became harmonized with Judaism by Maimonides, it was an easy step to make Aristotle himself a Jew. Joseph b. Shem-?ob assures his reader that he had seen it written in an old book that Aristotle at the end of his life had become a proselyte ("ger zede?"). The reputed statement of Clear-chus is repeated by Abraham Bibago in the guise of the information that Aristotle was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, born in Jerusalem, and belonging to the family of Kolaiah (Neh. xi. 7). As authority for it Eusebius is cited, who, however, has merely the above statement of Josephus.
