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From: davidh@tektronix.tek.com (David L Hatcher)
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Subject: Re: afterlife
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Date: 9 Mar 91 05:48:01 GMT
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In article <Mar.5.23.14.22.1991.22870@athos.rutgers.edu> lindborg@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg) writes:
>  Perhaps I should have been more clear.  The ideas of *resurection*
>did indeed (as far as we know) enter Judaism through Persia in the 
>neighborhood of the mid 5th century BCE. 

  This would be through the Zoroastrian religion. The Magi were
  Zoroastrian's. I've read in many places that Judaism did not
  have any concept of "evil", "hell" or "satan" as we know it until 
  the Zoroastrian's came onto the scene and freed them from from their 
  exile in Babylonia.


	David Hatcher