Abstract
One of the most intriguing Jewish texts written in Greek during the Hellenistic-Roman period is the poetic work known as Pseudo-Orpheus. It has been preserved by Christian writers in various forms, beginning with Clement of Alexandria, although Eusebius reports that a version of the poem was quoted by Aristobulus, the Jewish philosopher who flourished in the mid-second century BCE. Accordingly, the poem is sometimes said to have been preserved in a longer and shorter recension. But even this veils the complexity of the textual tradition. Clement quotes some thirty-one lines from the poem, but rather than giving either the longer or shorter form of the poem as a unified composition, he cites scattered quotations. Orpheus is mentioned briefly by Theophilus of Antioch in Ad Autolycum , dated circa 180 CE. Keywords: Aristobulus; Clement of Alexandria; Pseudo-Orpheus
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