Zoroaster — The Prophet Behind Three Faiths
Hi there, and welcome to 8 Minute Lives. Today's subject may be the most influential human being you can't place on a timeline. Somewhere in ancient Iran or Central Asia, a priest had a set of ideas that, if many scholars are right, helped shape how billions of people imagine heaven, hell, angels, the devil, and the end of the world. Ideas that echo through Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. His name was Zarathustra — the Greeks called him Zoroaster — and here's the remarkable thing: historians cannot agree on when he lived, to within about a thousand years. That uncertainty is going to be our…
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