No. The Jewish emphasis on scriptural law was a counter-reaction to greco-roman

No. The Jewish emphasis on scriptural law was a counter-reaction to greco-roman law oncde t hey saw the effect of it. So they resurrected pre-500bc remnants and adopted the use of the law themselves. You will find almost all semitic behavior after the bronze age collapse, is just reaction to the superiority of the social, political, military, and technological advantages of indo europeans whether iranic, anatolian, or european.

Likewise islam is largely the result of a counter-reaction against the Nicean effort to standardize the bible as law, with a law that was intolerable for the arabs and their tribalism. Before nicea christianity was ascendent in the orient.

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