(May 15, 2022 at 7:27 pm)Nomad Wrote: You do realise that the christian concept of the soul came from Hellenistic philosophy and not Israelite religion? Judaism had no concept of the soul until some Hellenes converted, and the idea didn't become more than fringe until after it became a central tenet of christianity.
It's disputable though. The Jews had a concept of "the breath" and may have treated it like, "the soul" in certain writings. But the Greek notion of the soul, as something immaterial, is way different than that. There's no doubt.
And so, after Hellenistic influence, it's more probable that those prevailing Hellenistic theories influenced Christianity. This is way more probable than "apocalyptic Judaism suddenly developed a 'Greek' concept of soul."
Christianity's soul concept resembles the Greek concept more than the Hebrew concept. But it's not the consensus of scholars that the Christian concept is totally in line with the Greek concept and not the Hebrew concept. There is some ambiguity there, and some overlap in concepts from both traditions.
