The Magi at the Manger
The Seams — Part 5 of 6 eFireTemple.com This is the seam that should end the debate. It is not in the Hebrew Bible. It is in the New Testament. It is in Matthew — the same Gospel that records Jesus's Seven Woes against the Pharisees. And it presents a picture of Zoroastrian spirituality so positive, so divinely affirmed, so incompatible with Daniel's demonization of the Persian system, that the two texts cannot coexist without one of them being wrong. Matthew chapter 2. The Magi come to worship Jesus.
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The Seams — Part 5 of 6 eFireTemple.com This is the seam that should end the debate. It is not in the Hebrew Bible. It is in the New Testament. It is in Matthew — the same Gospel that records Jesus's Seven Woes against the Pharisees. And it presents a picture of Zoroastrian spirituality so positive, so divinely affirmed, so incompatible with Daniel's demonization of the Persian system, that the two texts cannot coexist without one of them being wrong. Matthew chapter 2. The Magi come to worship Jesus. Who the Magi were The Magi were Zoroastrian priests. This is not speculation. The Greek word magoi — from which we get "Magi" — derives from the Old Persian magu , the term for the Zoroastrian priestly class. The Magi were the keepers of the sacred fire, the performers of the Yasna liturgy, the interpreters of the Avesta, the astronomers and theologians of the Zoroastrian tradition.
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Yasna · Avesta · Hebrew Bible · New Testament