The allegorical exegesis of the Bible as ground for the philosophical speculation in the Hellenisric Judaism: Aristobulus and Philo

The Jewish-Hellenistic culture rests on the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Allegorisrm had its starting point in Alexandria at the beginning of the second century B.C. One of the saiient prephilonian allegorists was Aristobulus. He goes through the biblical texts on three modes: allegory, motivated literalism, and cosmological statements. Among his five preserved fragments we find a throughoutgoing exegesis of the seventh day. In Philo the allegory overlaps the philosophical method. Greek thougt is assumed in a higher and independent philosophy, whose substance is the Bible, and before all the Genesis. Philosophical and anthropological platonic and stoic concepts are worked out into a theological synthesis wich expresses the path from the world to God through máthesis,physis and áskesis, to reach the ideai of perfect wisdo