From: "gordon meuse" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Zoroastrianism
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 22:50:18 +0000

>Whatever Z. may be now, or may have been in the 1st century, the question 
>is what it was in Latro's day. Given the friendliness of the Persian rulers 
>to the Jews, it seems that ur-Zoroastrians may have thought they were 
>worshipping the same God under different names.

the truth is that the jews of the time wanted to make it seem that Cyrus was 
worshipping the same god as them, but this just wasn't the case.

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