"The translation of the Hebrew Torah into Greek introduced Greek concepts into Jewish thought. Althought the original translators endeavored to render the text as literally as possible, Hebrew words and idioms that had no Greek equivalent or concepts that were obscure were interpreted or elucidated. With Greek the language of the Bible and the synagogue and its influences on Jewish literature, the Diaspora Jews gradually began to assimilate Hellenistic ideas and concepts and attempted to understand the Scriptures under the influence of those ideas. They interpreted the Scriptures allegorically and discovered in them the deepest philosophical and metaphysical truths. Allegorical interpration of the Scriptures was the distinctive literary product of Alexandrian Judaism. The master of this interpretation and the principal figure of Hellenistic-Jewish philosophy is Philo Judeas. "