Demetrius

The first known Jewish author to write in Greek, probably from the late third century BCE, he tried to solve chronological problems in the biblical sources in the manner of Greek historians.

Only a small part of the Jewish literary output of Alexandria survives, preserved mainly in quotations by later Christian authors. It includes histories, epics and philosophy in Greek. The first known Jewish writer composing in Greek is the historian Demetrius, probably from the late third century BCE.1