The Straight Line: From Zarathustra to Paul, and What Got Lost Along the Way
By Diesel the Magus | eFireTemple There is a direct, documented, traceable line running from the religion of ancient Iran through the Babylonian exile, through the anonymous author of Isaiah 40–66, through the Pharisaic sect, through Paul of Tarsus, and into the doctrinal architecture of Christianity as the world knows it today. This is not a theory. Every link in this chain is established in peer-reviewed scholarship.
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By Diesel the Magus | eFireTemple There is a direct, documented, traceable line running from the religion of ancient Iran through the Babylonian exile, through the anonymous author of Isaiah 40–66, through the Pharisaic sect, through Paul of Tarsus, and into the doctrinal architecture of Christianity as the world knows it today. This is not a theory. Every link in this chain is established in peer-reviewed scholarship. What is missing from the popular account — and from Christianity's own account of itself — is that the source of those ideas was never Jewish, never the Torah, and never Jesus. It was Zoroastrian. The religion that originated those ideas got erased from the story it made possible. This article traces the line from beginning to end. I.
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Primary sources detected
Gathas · Avesta · Hebrew Bible
Scholars detected
Mary Boyce · Shaul Shaked