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Persian religion was Zoroastrianism,
Some scholars believe that many elements of Christian mythology, particularly its linear portrayal of time, originated with the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism.[29] Mary Boyce, an authority on Zoroastrianism, writes:
Zoroaster was thus the first to teach the doctrines of an individual judgment, Heaven and Hell, the future resurrection of the body, the general Last Judgment, and life everlasting for the reunited soul and body. These doctrines were to become familiar articles of faith to much of mankind, through borrowings by Judaism, Christianity and Islam.[30]
Mircea Eliade believes the Hebrews had a sense of linear time before Zoroastrianism influenced them. However, he argues, "a number of other [Jewish] religious ideas were discovered, revalorized, of systematized in Iran". These ideas include a dualism between good and evil, belief in a future savior and resurrection, and "an optimistic eschatology, proclaiming the final triumph of Good".[31]
The Zoroastrian concepts of Ahriman, Amesha Spentas, Yazatas, and Daevas probably gave rise to the Christian understanding of Satan, archangels, angels, and demons.[3
The entire Bible is a collection of mythic themes found in older myths.
Christian mythology - Wikipedia
Rank-Ragalin mythotype scale, Jesus scores around 20. The only one that definitely doesn't fit is marries a princess. Doesn't prove a character is fiction but shows the biography was almost definitely embellished and mythicized. Except scripture is supposed to be divine and without error. I don't think it's divine.
Lord Raglan, in 1936, developed a 22-point myth-ritualist Hero archetype to account for common patterns across Indo-European cultures for Hero traditions, following myth-ritualists like James Frazer and S. H. Hooke:[2]
- Mother is a royal virgin
- Father is a king
- Father often a near relative to mother
- Unusual conception
- Hero reputed to be son of god
- Attempt to kill hero as an infant, often by father or maternal grandfather
- Hero spirited away as a child
- Reared by foster parents in a far country
- No details of childhood
- Returns or goes to future kingdom
- Is victor over king, giant, dragon or wild beast
- Marries a princess (often daughter of predecessor)
- Becomes king
- For a time he reigns uneventfully
- He prescribes laws
- Later loses favor with gods or his subjects
- Driven from throne and city
- Meets with mysterious death
- Often at the top of a hill
- His children, if any, do not succeed him
- His body is not buried
- Has one or more holy sepulchers or tomb
- Oedipus (21 or 22 points), Theseus (20 points), Romulus (18 points), Heracles (17 points), Jesus (20 points), Perseus (18 points), Jason (15 points), Bellerophon (16 points), Pelops (13 points), Dionysos (19 points), Apollo (11 points), Zeus (15 points), Joseph (12 points), Moses (20 points), Elijah (9 points), Watu Gunung (18 points), Nyikang (14 points), Sigurd (11 points), Llew Llawgyffes (17 points), King Arthur (19 points), Robin Hood (13 points), and Alexander the Great (7 points).[2]