Doubt it since the Hebrew Jehovah...the God of both Jews and Christians...predated Zoroastrianism.
I disagree.
Zoroaster lived before Moses. Moses is dated to about 1000 B.C. or so.
Also, there is cryptic evidence in the Bible that the early Israelites were indeed polytheistic. There is the dual term used in the Old Testament for God - Yahweh, a singular, and Elohim, a plural. There was evidence that the early Isrealites even thought God had a female consort. The constant referral to the threat of polytheistic cults arising in Israel indicated that there was a sizable percentage of the Israelites who had rejected or never really had been receptive to monotheism, as also indicated by the constant chiding by the various Prophets against this behavior.
Before the Babylonian Captivity, Yahweh was considered a the National God of the Israelites. AFTER the Babylonian Captivity, the Israelites came to view Yahweh more as the only real God rather than a mere tribal Deity.
During the Babylonian Captivity, the Israelites were exposed to Zoroastrianism, which was a pure monotheism. Zoroastrians view Ahura Mazda, the name they use for God, as the only true God, the God of everyone and everything. They also believe in an evil force, Ahriman, who seeks to deceive and mislead men from the truth, they believe in an afterlife, a last judgement, a resurrection of the dead, and angels. Finally, Zoroaster predicted the coming of a Saviour who would lead all men to the truth and redemption. Its believed by many scholars that the Three Wise Men of the New Testament were Zoroastrian priests looking for the promised Saviour. All of these were missing in early Old Testament writings - in whole or in part - and indeed, some of them are more common in Christianity today than in contemporary Judaism.
Predates it by almost 4000 years.
It would have been a better excuse to have tried to dig into Abraham’s background and as a result of his Father’s form of worship...imply Abraham was polytheistic.
I would’ve gunned that down...but it would have had a little more mustard on it than the shallow zoroastrinism spin. Oi...