“Christianity arose from an already Hellenized Jewish mother. By the time of Jesus, Palestinian Jews had adopted and adapted Greek ideas to such an extent that in many cases concepts that appeared distinctly “Jewish” were actually “Greek-Jewish” cultural hybrids.”
Just as Jesus calmed the winds, the Dioscuri, sons of Zeus, one of the Mediterranean gods, calm the storms in hymns. Orpheus, on the other hand, is more similar to Jesus and can soothe with his voice. Mark 4/39: Jesus stood up and rebuked the wind and said to the lake, “Be quiet, be still!” said. The wind died down
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