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ye, hellenism was everywhere post-alexander, but influence =/= more hellenized than the synoptics
john's core
>dualism (qumran 1qs)
>pre-existent son of man (1 enoch 48)
>memra-logos (targums)
is jewish sectarian, not platonic.
the synoptics have more greco-roman rhetorical forms.

>there's a theory that the Essenes were actually influenced by Buddhism
idk shit about that but it made me remember something funny