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Zoroaster ca. Zoroastrianism is ranked with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam among the higher religions originating in the Middle East. The dates given for Zoroaster by ancient and modern writers differ considerably. The more sober authors have placed him between and B. The latter date conforms to the tradition of the Zoroastrians themselves, who regard Zoroaster as having revealed his religion years before Alexander the Great conquered Iran in B.

The main sources for the life and career of Zoroaster are the Avesta, the sacred book of the Zoroastrians, the oldest and most reliable source; later Zoroastrian literature, among which Denkart, an encyclopedic work in Middle Persian, stands out; and non-Zoroastrian works, which include Persian, Arabic, Armenian, and classical histories. Zoroaster was known among the classic writers chiefly as the Browse all BookRags Study Guides.

Life and Work of the Forerunner in Persia is the first general-audience biography of the great Persian sage.

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