Does Zoroastrianism influenced Christianity,Islam and Judaism?

[AphroditeWorshiper]

Zoroastrianism is the oldest/or one of the oldest Monotheistic religion, so I was wondering if his ideology influenced these three religions in some way

I'm also very interested in Zoroastrianism

[Ziveth]

On one of the history books i have at home there is wrote Zoroastrianism influenced Christianity and the first christians' religious beliefs.
But i don't know about Islam.

[blogen]

The Judaism is highly affected.

[Dragoon]

Yes Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism which in turn influenced the next two.

[Sacrificed Ram]

After long study, I can say Zoroastrian religion closes much more with hinduism. The linguistical distance between the persian and the canaanite/hebrew/aramean language made the interaction between these two religious branches too difficult.

You can believe, egyptians beliefs influenced much more the abrahamanism.

[Lessenech]

The 3 Magi of the story of Jesus' birth that paid him offerings of gold, myrrh and frankinscence were Zoroastrian.

[Sacrificed Ram]

The 3 Magi of the story of Jesus' birth that paid him offerings of gold, myrrh and frankinscence were Zoroastrian.

After persian acheminid and greek rule in near east, the word magi became synonym of priest of any religion.

Even in catholic tradition, one of the Three Magi Kings was ethiopian:

[Silk]

Zoroastrianism doesn't have a concept of God in the same way as Abrahamic faiths, because it isn't one. It is more similar to Indian religion, where one God has sub-gods as manifestations of it's attributes. Ahura Mazda is perhaps more similar to Brahma. Hence Spenta Mainyu can appear as an attribute of the God-principle, specifically, the principle of good thought.

[Bosniensis]

Arabs say that Persian religion was Monotheist, but after the death of their Prophet, Satan led them to Mazdaism.

[Nyx]

It's possible, they certainly have some symbology that are very similar. This is a "seal" written in paleo hebrew apparently owned by Hezekiah:



The winged sun used in Zoroastrianism:



And of course there's the winged sun in ancient Egypt:




My gut feeling is that all of these religions are linked by an older religion that preceded them. Maybe from ancient Babylon or Sumeria, but don't take my word for it I'm not entirely sure about that.

Zoroastrianism doesn't have a concept of God in the same way as Abrahamic faiths, because it isn't one. It is more similar to Indian religion, where one God has sub-gods as manifestations of it's attributes. Ahura Mazda is perhaps more similar to Brahma. Hence Spenta Mainyu can appear as an attribute of the God-principle, specifically, the principle of good thought.

Indeed it doesn't have much to do with today's Abrahamic religions, although it's somewhat similar to Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) in that the Godhead possesses lower emanations (sephiroths) that maintains the existence of the universe.