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Was Neo Platonism influenced by christianity?

 

I know that people say neo platonism influneced christianity. But is the other way around also true? Neo platonism to me seems like a possible syncretism between a few things. I feel like the proverbs has some similarities to plotonius book.
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I think more likely Jewish rather than Christian, given the chronology. It’s certainly plausible that the Greek Septuagint, including Proverbs, was available to Plotinus. But it seems more probable to me that both Proverbs and Plotinus draw on Egyptian wisdom literature, and that this is responsible for the commonalities between them.