Where did the Jesus myth come from?

[Justtristo]

As for any Greek presence in Judaea, I have to ask when? Greeks and Persia were officially at war from 500 BC until Alexander overran Persia c 332 BC. Persia had solid control of Yehud ( which is what they called Judaea ) until Alex came rolling through. Any sizeable community of Greeks had either be mercenaries in the employ of the Persians or they would have been enemies. After Alexander, of course, the Greeks do move in.

I believe there was a Greek presence in the Levant from the end of the Bronze Age onwards. At least some of the Philistines might have well been Mycenaean Greeks. The conquests of Alexander the Great then would have just intensified greatly this influence.

Anyway the Egyptian influence on Canaanite religion and later Judaism is a result of the very long period of Egyptian domination of Canaan. Also not to mention Egypt was an major early center for Christianity. I am of the opinion that Christianity started off as a syncretistic form of Judaism which received substantial influence from Platonism, various mystery religions, along with ancient Egyptian religion.