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ARISTOBULUS , of Paneas (c. 16o B.C.), a Jewish philosopher of the Peripatetic school. Gercke places him in the See also:

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy X. Philometor (end of 2nd See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century), Anatolius in that of Ptolemy II. Philadelphus, but the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 2nd century is more probable. He was among the earliest of the Jewish-Alexandrian philosophers whose aim was to reconcile and identify See also:

Greek philosophical conceptions with the Jewish See also:

religion. Only a few fragments of his See also:

WORK

work, apparently entitled Commentaries on the Writings of See also:

Moses, are quoted by See also:

Clement, See also:

Eusebius and other theological writers, but they suffice to show its See also:

OBJECT

object. He endeavoured to prove that See also:

early Greek philosophers had See also:

ARISTOCRACY (Gr. apuvror, best; «paria, government)

ARISTOCRACY 497 borrowed largely from certain parts of Scripture, and quoted from See also:

LINUS

Linus, See also:

ORPHEUS

Orpheus, See also:

MUSAEUS

Musaeus and others, passages which strongly resemble the See also:

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

Mosaic writings. These passages, however, were obvious forgeries. It is suggested that the name Aristobulus was taken from 2 Macc. i. ro. The See also:

HYPOTHESIS (from Gr. inrorcOivat, to put under; cf. Lat. suppositio, from sub-ponere)

hypothesis (Schlatter, Das neugefundene hebraische See also:

STUCK, FRANZ (1863— )

Stuck See also:

des Sirach) that it was from Aristobulus that the See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy of See also:

ECCLESIASTICUS (abbreviated to Ecclus.)

Ecclesiasticus was derived is not generally accepted. See E.

Scharer, See also:

HISTORY

History of the Jewish See also:

PEOPLE

People (Eng. trans., 1890-1891), ii. 237 seq.; See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL: Philosophy; and s.v. " Aristobulus " in Jewish Encyclopedia (See also:

Paul Wendland).

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