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Originally Posted by ericthered
The questions of Platonism strongly affected early christianity. You can see it as influence, or you can see it as christianity answering the questions that were asked, but the schools of thought weren't just pushed out by Christianity, they were absorbed. (at least by my understanding)
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Perhaps all of the above.
Jews at the time weren't a philosophical people, so much as a religious people and their writings tended to deal with custom rather then cosmology. Even where Platonists had to sharp a difference to be incorporated into Christianity they were a good foil.