Yes, why arguing with a numb brain like yours is a waste of time, real slow---> the 1rst temple built by Solomon 900-1000bc is a total crock as usual, the 1rst temple only originates around 500's bc thanks to the generosity of the wise Persian rulers who overthrow Babylon & free the Jewish captives there.
The Persian cosmology & religion has the most profound effect on Judaism which is directly assimilated by them , One God of Good, Angels, Satan his counterpart in the archangel Michael. Persian influences was giving the backward Jews a cosmic philosophy finally , influenced by Babylonian astronomy from them comes the Messianic expectations.
P. 57
"Zarathushtra's doctrine of rewards and punishment, of an eternity of bliss and an eternity of woe allotted to good and evil men in another life beyond the grave is so strikingly similar to Christian teaching that we cannot fail to ask whether here at least there is not a direct influence at work. The answer is surely `Yes', for the similarities are so great and the historical context is so neatly apposite that it would be carrying skepticism altogether too far to refuse to draw the obvious conclusion."
"Thus from the moment the Jews first made contact with the Iranians they took over the typical Zoroastrian doctrine of an individual afterlife in which rewards are to be enjoyed and punishments endured. This Zoroastrian hope gained ever surer ground during the inter-testamentary period, and by the time of Christ it was upheld by the Pharisees, whose very name some scholars have interpreted as meaning `Persian', that is, the sect most open to Persian influence."
* That Moses was in Egypt 1300bc? Not a chance in the world , the Hebrews weren't even a coherent tribe at that point , more than likely were hill tribe Canaanites who split off later, again the Bible as usual is FOS.
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