Aristobulus

Aristobulus, an Alexandrian Jew and peripatetic philosopher, who lived about 170 B.C., was considered by the early fathers as the founder of the Jewish philosophy in Alexandria. He is said to have been the author of an allegorical commentary on the books of Moses, which showed that the oldest Greek writers borrowed from the Hebrew Scriptures; but it is now admitted that this work was written by a much later writer.—For the Hasmonean or Maccabee princes of this name, in 106 B.C. and 64 B.C. respectively, see JEWS.