Judaism is much older than Zoroastrianism but there is a claim that concepts like angels and other things were stolen by the Jews from the Zoroastrians during the Babylonian captivity, yet angels are mentioned in the Torah which predates the earliest Zoroastrian text by thousands of years, the oldest intact Zoroastrian text post-dates the death of Jesus! But some scholars argue that the writing style of this Zoroastrian text dates to 600bc even if so you have to say the Torah was forged after this Zoroastrian text--<span style="margin-top: -3px;"> [[Image:50 star flag.png|12px]]</span><span style="position:relative; overflow:hidden; width:88px; height:15px; z-index:2;"> [[User:Deborah]] [[Special:Contributions/Deborah|<font color="gray">(contributions)</font>]] [[User_talk:Deborah|<font color="darkslategray">(talk)</font>]]</span> 22:58, 1 April 2008 (EDT) | Judaism is much older than Zoroastrianism but there is a claim that concepts like angels and other things were stolen by the Jews from the Zoroastrians during the Babylonian captivity, yet angels are mentioned in the Torah which predates the earliest Zoroastrian text by thousands of years, the oldest intact Zoroastrian text post-dates the death of Jesus! But some scholars argue that the writing style of this Zoroastrian text dates to 600bc even if so you have to say the Torah was forged after this Zoroastrian text--<span style="margin-top: -3px;"> [[Image:50 star flag.png|12px]]</span><span style="position:relative; overflow:hidden; width:88px; height:15px; z-index:2;"> [[User:Deborah]] [[Special:Contributions/Deborah|<font color="gray">(contributions)</font>]] [[User_talk:Deborah|<font color="darkslategray">(talk)</font>]]</span> 22:58, 1 April 2008 (EDT) |