Zoroastrianism
The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 08 May 2003
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Josh Geller — 08 May 2003, 18:36

> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:11, James Jordan wrote:
>          Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the 
> question is what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the 
> Persian rulers to the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought 
> they were worshipping the same God under different names. 

Those were not ur-Zoroastrians, in Cyrus the Great's time. Zoroaster 
preached about a thousand years before this.

>                                                         Reading the works 
> of Zarathustra, one wonders if he had not been influenced by diaspora Jews.

That would have been quite a trick.
 
The influence is all the other way, as near as I can tell. 

Cyrus the Great conquered Iraq, and sent the Jews home. These Jews that
he sent home were sent there to run Palestine for him. They got up a 
committee to rewrite their scriptures, coincidentally making them more
Zoroastrianlike in the process.

Josh

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gordon meuse — 08 May 2003, 22:50
  follows, by subject match Josh Geller

> Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the question 
> is what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the Persian rulers 
> to the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought they were 
> worshipping the same God under different names.

the truth is that the jews of the time wanted to make it seem that Cyrus was 
worshipping the same god as them, but this just wasn't the case.

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Josh Geller — 08 May 2003, 23:33
  follows, by subject match gordon meuse

> > On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 15:50, gordon meuse wrote:
> > Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the question 
> > is what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the Persian rulers 
> > to the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought they were 
> > worshipping the same God under different names.

> the truth is that the jews of the time wanted to make it seem that Cyrus was 
> worshipping the same god as them, but this just wasn't the case.

It's a good thing, when we are lost in confusion, that someone should
step right up and tell us the Truth. No one could possibly deny this.



Josh

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