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Josh Geller08 May 2003, 18:36originalas archived
Zoroastrianism
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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.
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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
gordon meuse08 May 2003, 22:50originalas archived
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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.
Josh Geller08 May 2003, 23:33originalas archived
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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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