I think Jewish merchants in Alexandria, Jerusalem, Damascus, and around Mediterranean provided opportunities for the sharing of ideas and literature before and during the Roman empire, and that Philo's approaches were known especially among Hebrew scholars. Philo and some others at the time addressed the moral significance of one's logos and ingenium (root of 'genius') because these were intermediaries between the divine and human, and were part of the soul. Applying a moral purpose to one's ingenium (to beget, to begin) in this way would foreshadow Christian claims that there were good and bad angels. One's logos and ingenium in this new hermeneutic had a moral dimention that could be used to control what was considered one's legitimate logos or ingenium, thereby potentially controlling information on religious terms. (Part of this is discussed very briefly in the book, 'Logodaedalus' (Pittsburgh, 2018)).