A standalone piece This is a comparison, not an accusation, and it follows one rule strictly: each deity is treated […]
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A standalone piece Most visions of the end of the world end in destruction — fire, judgment, an ending. Zoroastrianism […]
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A standalone piece The scriptures of Zoroastrianism reached us by two utterly different roads. One is stone: royal inscriptions carved […]
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A standalone piece The temptation in writing about Zoroastrianism is to keep it in the past tense — the religion […]
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A standalone piece Most introductions to Zoroastrian ethics get as far as “good thoughts, good words, good deeds” and stop, […]
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A synthesis The picture of reality that most of the Western and Islamic world takes for granted as “religion” — […]
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A standalone piece By the first century BCE, the afterlife was contested ground inside Judaism. One party held that the […]
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A standalone piece Tradition holds that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. The text itself makes that […]
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A standalone piece Two religions sit on either side of the Babylonian exile, and the resemblance between them is the […]
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A standalone piece The case for Moses as a historical figure rests on a single source — the Pentateuch — […]