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The Saducees didn't believe that there was a "soul", they believed in the no soul doctrine of which Aristotelian Atomists/Materialists also doesn't believe in. If you only read the Old Testament, the "breath of life" returns to God while their body returns to adamah/ground. Paul was the first to formulate the tripartite being concept of the body-mind-spirit tri-unity of man (AKA trichotomy of man) in the Christian bible but he was not the first to form a "Trinity". Some people suspect that he ripped it off of Plato just as (((Philo of Alexandria))) tried to incorporate Platonic thought into Rabbinic Misnhic Judaism but nobody knows for certain. The modern form of the Trinity is the one explained by St. Augustine which the Orthodox Churches despise him for his concept of the filioque. Anyways, the concept of the Trinity of the Godhead was in the Old Testament here and there as well as the New Testament, but to claim that there's a trichotomy of man to be derived from the Old Testament exclusively is a harder claim to make unless you think that a soul means the synthesis between the flesh and the spirit based off of Genesis 2:7. From the perspective of the Greek Monists, the Christians secularized Monistic Metaphysics while from the perspective of the Christians, Pythagoras and Plato might had read the first few chapters of the book of Genesis but didn't cared about whatever promises God made to "his people" and so doesn't care about Jesus Christ.