Let me put this as bluntly as I can: yes, of course there is pagan influence in the collection of texts that Jews and Christians collectively and separately refer to as “Scripture” or “the Bible.”
There exists a list of points of academic consensus about the development of the religious trajectory we variously identify as ancient Israelite, Early Jewish…
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