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Another book about the Bible that completely overlooks the Zoroastrian influence is "Don't Know Much About the Bible" (Kenneth C. Davis) which is very open-minded and critical of the Bible and religion, very well researched, emphasizes the human authorship and mistakes of the Bible, but mentions Zoroastrism only in two passages in brief:
1) in a chronology, says that in 605 bC "Zoroaster founds a religion that would dominate Persia" (which is wrong, Zoroaster lived around 1200 bC) 2) says that Esdras 1 tells a parable "derived from the Zoroastrian religion of Persia about the 'strongest thing in the world', which proves to be Truth". That's all. I simply can't understand it! |
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