The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

Yet even the Jewish Patriarch, Gamaliel 11., who
may have sat with Saul of Tarsus at the feet of his
grandfather, was said to have busied himself with
Greek, as he certainly held liberal views on many
points connected with Grecianism. To be sure,
tradition justified him on the ground that his
position brought him into contact with the ruling
powers, and, perhaps, to further vindicate him,
ascribed similar pursuits to the elder Gamaliel,
although groundlessly, to judge from the
circumstance that he was so impressed even with
the wrong of possessing a Targum on Job in
Aramaean, that he had it buried deep in the ground.
But all these are indications of a tendency existing.
How wide it must have spread, appears from the
fact that the ban had to be pronounced on all who
studied * Greek wisdom.' One of the greatest
Rabbis, Elisha ben Abujah, seems to have been
actually led to apoetacy by such studies. True, he
appears as the * Acker * —^the * other'—in
Talmudic writings, whom it was not proper even
to