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by Anonymous on October 30th, 2005

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Wha are the major differences between Zoroastrianism and Judaism?

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  • by Alatea on November 2nd, 2005

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    It made contributions to Judaism, for between 538 B.C. (when the Persians under Cyrus captured Babylonia and set free the Jews exiled in that land) and 330 B.C. (when the Persian Empire was destroyed by Alexander) the Jews were directly under the suzerainty of the Zoroastrians. And it was from the suzerains that the Jews first learnt to believe in an Ahriman, a personal devil, whom they called in Hebrew, Satan. Possibly from them, too, the Jews first learnt to believe in a heaven and hell, and in a judgment Day for each individual.

    Lewis Browne, This Believing World, New York: MacMillan Company, 1926, pp. 216, 217.

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on May 13th, 2007

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    They are built on two markedly different world views. The Irani, upon whose religion Zoroastrianism was based, were an Indo-European people with a religion very much like the Ancient Aryan religion of North India- both tribes were closely related-and not so different from that of the Greeks, Romans and Norse. Zoroaster( who lived somewhere between 1800BC and 600BC), when he purified the Irani's religious system, simply reduced the roles of the many nature gods, and elevated the god of wisdom, Ahura Mazda, to the position of Creator. (Prior to that the king of the gods had been Indra, the Sky God)
    The Jews were Semitic peoples, but, even amongst the Semitic peoples, they were odd. Unlike them, from about 2000 BC onwards they were strongly monotheistic. In the initial centuries of Judaism, the Jews spent over 400 years in Egypt, but remained an independent people nevertheless, and held strongly to their beliefs before they moved back to Canaan (modern Israel) and occupied it.
    The two southern Jewish tribes were taken into exile in Babylon between 587-539 BC, but, once again, they held firmly to their beliefs (as can be seen in Daniel, Esther, and in the two return books, Ezra and Nehemiah). There appears to have been very little borrowed from Zoroastrianism, as Judaism had its own Scriptures and paid no importance to the Avesta.

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  • by noletters on April 13th, 2007

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    Probably the belief in Hell. There are so many different types of judiasm, so i don't know if there are some that believe in Hell, but that and is a major one.

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