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In Jewish literature from the post-Biblical era, Aristotle appears in numerous guises, sometimes as the philosopher par excellence, sometimes as an interlocutor with Jews.
Jewish religious authorities had a very ambivalent relationship with Greek philosophy—they feared its religious orientations, but they lived in a world where it held unparalleled influence, largely through the ideas associated with Aristotelianism.