The religion of the Persians "Zorostrianism" completely influenced most all early Hebrew theology & cosmology, was never wiped out by Christianity imbecile, that neo-Persian empire survived well into the 6th century in the form of the Sassanids, one of the great empires that even repulsed Attilla & also on many occasions defeated Rome.
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Most scholars, Jewish as well as non-Jewish, are of the opinion that Judaism was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism in views relating to angelology and demonology, and probably also in the doctrine of the resurrection, after life as well as in eschatological ideas in general, and also that the monotheistic conception of Yhwh
Later these ideas become an incorporated part of the template for Islam to follow & the Ottoman Empire. From the Indo-Persian came the much later Hebrew, then Mohammed takes from both, all evolutionary, you see it today in both Judaism & Islamism, therefore also Christianity.
You can go all the way back to India which influenced the Persians , where "the God of the Covenants" & light comes from--->Mitra. |
