I realize these aren't direct responses, but here are a couple of interesting historical points.
1. Mind/body dualism also arose in pagan Greece (Plato being the clearest example).
2. When most people think of dualism today, they are thinking of Cartesian dualism where the mind and body have a very tenuous connection indeed. But that is a relatively recent idea. Within the Christian tradition, something like Hylemorphic dualism[1], which maintains a very tight connection between mind and body, long predated it. (Probably due in part to belief in the Resurrection of the Body.)
1. Mind/body dualism also arose in pagan Greece (Plato being the clearest example).
2. When most people think of dualism today, they are thinking of Cartesian dualism where the mind and body have a very tenuous connection indeed. But that is a relatively recent idea. Within the Christian tradition, something like Hylemorphic dualism[1], which maintains a very tight connection between mind and body, long predated it. (Probably due in part to belief in the Resurrection of the Body.)
[1] http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/dso/papers/Hylem...