To expand your comment that the ‘Greeks brought something new to the Jewish Nation’, how does the Gospel of Thomas (part of the Gnostic Gospels) circa 60 BC to 100 AD, fit in with this discussion of the interstitial period between strict pagan Hellenism 400 BC to Christianity approx 250 AD.
I’m afraid I am not that familiar with that gospel account. I got my information from 1 Maccabees. We had a lot of resistance to studying this in our Bible Study, but found it really set the table for many of the events in the New Testament.