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Aristibule (Aristobulus) is one of the seventy Apostles (Luke 10:10) sent out to preach. He is possibly mentioned by St. Paul and is identified with Zebedee, the father of Sts. James and John. He later became a bishop to the Celts of northern Spain and Britain and is known as the Apostle of Britain. Hippolytus writing in AD 160, the Martyrologies of the Greek Church, (and others) state that he preached in Britain. It is believed he was martyred in Wales although there is no documentation for this.
An Alexandrian Jew, probably of the second half of the second century B.C., author of a commentary on the Pentateuch which is known only through quotations by Clement, Anatolius, and Eusebius. This has been thought by some scholars to be a much later work (of the 3rd c. A.D.) falsely ascribed to Aristobulus; but the character of the quotations does not necessitate this conclusion. If the earlier date be accepted, the book is the earliest evidence of contact between Alexandrian Jewry and Greek philosophy. Its object was twofold, to interpret the Pentateuch in an allegorical fashion and to show that Homer and Hesiod, the Orphic writings, Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle had borrowed freely from a supposed early translation of the O.T. into Greek. Though Aristobulus toned down the antropomorphism of the O.T., his thought remained Jewish and theistic; it did not accept the pantheism of the Stoics nor anticipate the Logos-doctrine of Philo.

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