Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Empire: World History · 368. Ancient Egypt: The Origin of Abrahamic Religions? (Ep 7) · 14 Jun 2026
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And the result is quite a few of the books that we now have in the Hebrew Bible.
And that writing process continues, new books are written, new scrolls are added, all the way through into the Roman period.
So the Hebrew Bible is a collection of different texts and traditions.
It wasn't written beginning with Genesis and all the way through.
It's a process of reinvention the whole time.
And throughout this whole period, Yahweh's prioritisation is becoming such that he becomes a god that doesn't look anything like the Yahweh of the first half of the Iron Age.
He's pretty much on his own.
He has some kind of desensitized, if you like, gods who have now become angels or kind of messengers.
his family he's lost his household he's he's lost his kind of his collaborators his colleagues it's terribly lonely I think for Yahweh which is why you then get stories saying he goes up to finds Abraham in Iraq and says hey do you want to be my friend
Zoroastrianism is the name that's given to a religious system.
It's named after one of its key teachers at around this time, around the 5th century BCE, although it has much earlier traditions.
And at its heart is the deity Ahura Mazda, a deity that on the surface looks like really kind of liberal and tolerant.
This is a god who's like welcomes in the gods of all other peoples and kind of all those deities and their profiles and their kind of portfolios are collapsed
into that of Ahura Mazda.
So he is known as the god of heaven.
He is the god who created heaven and earth.
It looks very fluffy and very nice.
It's actually massively imperial.
Ahura Mazda is a very colonial form of god.
It colonises other people's deities, other people's traditions and takes them on.
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