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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (119)	5/12/2003 11:47:16 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

Sun Tzu. I'm sure you have a good reason for the title of this thread so I am curious as to why it is History's effect On Religion instead of Religions effect on History? Lorne

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (119)	5/12/2003 9:26:13 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

Eventually I would like to learn more about Zoroastrians impact on western religions development. Course there are so many other things I'd like to dip into too. Persian and Roman empires lived right next door to each other. So I think whatever you find about Mithra in Persia of the same era, is a very good proxy for whatever Mithra must have been like in Rome as well. That's an assumption I'm not sure about at all. Especially because of things like: There was no place for Ahura Mazda in Rome (at least as far as I know). In Rome Mithraism did break free from Zoroasterianism .. I'd think that was a pretty significant break. Also, about the sciptural issue, we know a good bit about early Christian writings. A number of Paul's epistles (Romans, Colossians I & II and several others) are considered by all scholars, I believe, to be genuinely authored by Paul who was killed during Nero's persecutions. We also have an epistle which didnt get into the NT by Clement of Rome, which is believed by all to have been written in the last decade of the first century. Re. the other NT books - there are disputes about when they were written but all were written at least in the second century. And there exist at least pieces of manuscripts of most of them which can be dated to the second century. Oh well, feel like we'er covering old ground now.