<snip>It had more to do with Antihellenism than Antichristianity
And yet Saul/Paul was a Hellenized Jew who was highly respected within Palestinian Judaism until his conversion. The Sacuccees, who oversaw the temple and its library, were absolutely Hellenized. Even the Maccabees of an earlier era, despite their reaction to the pagan elements of Hellenism embraced other elements which were not speciifcally pagan.
Here's a neat quote... it is a letter sent after the Maccabean wars from Palestine to Alexandria, "Nehemiah ...founded a library and collected the books about the kings and prophets, and the writings of David, and letters of kings about votive offerings. In the same way Judas also collected all the books that had been lost on account of the war which had come upon us, and they are in our possession. So if you have need of them, send people to get them for you. Since, therefore, we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. Will you therefore please keep the days?" (2 Maccabees 2:13-16)
An awareness existed that differences between these Jewish centers arose due to the viscissitudes of time and circumstance; it is likely these very differences were recurring and apparently never fully done away with.
Also, the books they deemed worthy of preserving and copying were not exactly commensurate with those books which we equate with the Jewish canon today.
Too, there is a spirit of commity in evidence between the two groups, not suspicions. I do not think there is a real demonstrable aversion of Hellenism per se within Palestainian Judaism, but rather an extreme aversion to the paganizing influences of it, toward which the Alexandrian Jews were also aversive.
