" Alexander had created his empire as an ideal: he wanted to fuse the races and he ‘ordered all men to regard the world as their country…good men as their kin, bad men as foreigners’. Isocrates argued that ‘the designation “Hellene” is no longer a matter of descent but of attitude’; he thought Greeks by education had better titles to citizenship than ‘Greek by birth’.48 Could not the Greek notion of the unified oikumene, world civilization, be married to the Jewish notion of the universal God? "

― Paul Johnson , A History of the Jews