  Further evidence of Judah’s use of the concept of sophia perennis may be witnessed in his orientation towards ancient Greek myth. The “rediscovery” of ancient Greek and Roman literature was one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance, and in the thought of Judah we certainly see this, only now with a distinctly Jewish “twist.” On one level, he wants to show that there exists a fundamental identity between Greek myth and the teachings of the Torah. Yet, on a deeper level he wants to argue that the Greeks ultimately derived their teachings from the ancient Israelites and subsequently corrupted  them.[15]  For instance, Judah argues that Plato studied among the ancient Israelites in  Egypt,[16]  and that Plato’s myth of the Androgyne, found in the Symposium, is actually a Greek plagiarism of a Jewish source: