Then please show me a historian who thinks otherwise?
The expert scholar on the Persian religion is Mary Boyce. She found that they had myths dating to at least 1700 BCE of a coming world savior, virgin born who would save humanity, the Revelation story, an uncreated God who was eternally at war with their devil and several other things not in Jewish theology but was in the NT. The Persians occupied Israel in 500BCE and allowed the Hebrew kings to return from exile.
This is from pg 29 of her book:
Historically, the unique features of Zoroastrianism, such as its
monotheism,
[5] messianism, belief in
free will and
judgement after death, conception of
heaven,
hell,
angels, and
demons, among other concepts, may have influenced other religious and philosophical systems, including the
Abrahamic religions and
Gnosticism,
[6][7][8] Northern Buddhism,
[7] and
Greek philosophy
Every other aspect is from Greek Hellenism. And of course Judaism because that was the religion that they added it all to.
Again, from Britannica because I'm not typing out books,
Hellenistic religion
-the seasonal drama was homologized to a
soteriology (salvation concept) concerning the destiny, fortune, and salvation of the individual after death.
-his led to a change from concern for a religion of national prosperity to one for individual
salvation, from focus on a particular
ethnic group to concern for every human. The prophet or
saviour replaced the priest and king as the chief religious figure.
-his process was carried further through the identification of the experiences of the soul that was to be saved with the
vicissitudes of a divine but fallen soul, which had to be redeemed by cultic activity and divine intervention. This view is illustrated in the concept of the paradoxical figure of the saved saviour,
salvator salvandus.
-Other deities, who had previously been associated with national destiny (
e.g., Zeus, Yahweh, and Isis), were raised to the status of
transcendent, supreme
-The temples and cult institutions of the various Hellenistic religions were repositories of the knowledge and techniques necessary for
salvation and were the agents of the public worship of a particular deity. In addition, they served an important sociological role. In the new,
cosmopolitan ideology that followed Alexander’s conquests, the old nationalistic and ethnic boundaries had broken down and the problem of religious and social identity had become
acute.
-Most of these groups had regular meetings for a communal meal that served the dual role of
sacramental participation (referring to the use of material elements believed to convey spiritual benefits among the members and with their deity)
-Hellenistic philosophy (Stoicism,
Cynicism, Neo-Aristotelianism, Neo-Pythagoreanism, and Neoplatonism) provided key formulations for
Jewish,
Christian, and
Muslim philosophy,
theology, and
mysticism through the 18th century
- The basic forms of worship of both the Jewish and Christian
communities were heavily influenced in their formative period by Hellenistic practices, and this remains fundamentally unchanged to the present time. Finally, the central religious literature of both traditions—the Jewish
Talmud (an
authoritative compendium of law, lore, and interpretation), the
New Testament, and the later
patristic literature of the early Church Fathers—are characteristic Hellenistic documents both in form and content.
-Other traditions even more radically reinterpreted the ancient figures. The cosmic or seasonal drama was interiorized to refer to the divine
soul within man that must be liberated.
-Each persisted in its native land with little perceptible change save for its becoming linked to
nationalistic or
messianic movements (centring on a deliverer figure)
-and
apocalyptic traditions (referring to a belief in the dramatic intervention of a god in human and natural events)
- Particularly noticeable was the success of a variety of prophets, magicians, and healers—
e.g., John the Baptist, Jesus,
Simon Magus,
Apollonius of Tyana,
Alexander the Paphlagonian, and the cult of the healer Asclepius—whose preaching corresponded to the activities of various G
Wow, that pretty much covers everything in Christianity.
I already posted the Sanders, Wright and Hundley passages showing basically the same information except they included souls that can get to heaven by being redeemed was a Greek invention and adopted by the Hebrews.
and again from worldhistory:
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www.worldhistory.org/article/94/the-hellenistic-world-the-world-of-alexander-the-g/
Hellenistic thought is evident in the narratives which make up the books of the Bible as the Hebrew Scriptures were revised and canonized during the Second Temple Period (c.515 BCE-70 CE), the latter part of which was during the
Hellenic Period of the region.
The gospels and epistles of the Christian New Testament were written in Greek and draw on
Greek philosophy and religion as, for example, in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in which the word becomes flesh, a Platonic concept.
Now please. can you come back with some actual facts or are all your beliefs based on fantasy and imagination? so how exactly are all these scholars writing "nonsense"??????????
