Zoroastrianism

gordon meuse · 08 May 2003, 22:50 · from urth-v0305.mbox · original

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From: "gordon meuse" <gordanus at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Zoroastrianism
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 22:50:18 +0000
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>Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the question=20
>is what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the Persian ruler=
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>to the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought they were=20
>worshipping the same God under different names.

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

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