The Achaemenid Transmission: Why the Zoroastrian Origin of Abrahamic Theology is Documented Historical Fact
The Achaemenid Transmission: Why the Zoroastrian Origin of Abrahamic Theology is Documented Historical Fact This article will do something that critics of the Zoroastrian origin thesis rarely do: apply consistent historical standards across the board. The same evidentiary bar used to evaluate this thesis will be applied to every other accepted influence claim in ancient religious history.
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The Achaemenid Transmission: Why the Zoroastrian Origin of Abrahamic Theology is Documented Historical Fact This article will do something that critics of the Zoroastrian origin thesis rarely do: apply consistent historical standards across the board. The same evidentiary bar used to evaluate this thesis will be applied to every other accepted influence claim in ancient religious history. What we will not accept is a double standard in which Persian influence on Judaism requires flight records while Greek influence on Christian theology requires nothing at all. The most common objection is that cultural contact does not automatically establish theological borrowing. This is technically correct and completely irrelevant to this case. The objection is valid when applied to civilizations that had brief or peripheral contact.
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