The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question
of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question that of the
relationship between Jewish culture Greek philosophy and then Greco-Roman (and Christian)
thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge.
Our journey into the history of the denomination 'Jewish philosophy' will include a leg that
will lead us to certain declarations of political moral and scientific principles and then
on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or in Christian circles prisca
theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy
Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic
treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism a theme that involves a
philosophical attitude founded on dialectical enquiry as the etymology of the Greek word
skepsis properly means.
