Andlt, we can see the ideas of the persons coming to be the greeks and plato's idea. Second, let's talk about the influence of terosts as it might have been on judaism and christianity. Now, which came first? Judaism or zorastransm? People do not argue about that outside this studio for a very long time. But the interconnections between the two, allan d william, seem to me to be very striking. They may have come as reading for this pregutey may most very likely have come from the time when nebuchadnezzar took the leading members ofjus to babylon. They stayed for 60 years, and then cyrus let them go back. Isirus the anointed one? Nnn. Jewish literatured takin a lot of ideas with them, or passed a lot of ideas on. Can you talk about that? What is the good of the connection? Tar wile, the connections, undoubtedly were

talking about a milie in the ancient world, when the jews were tremendously grateful to syrus and to the achomenians for liberating them them to go to jerusalemto build a temple em and i don't want to get into an inner nutshell. The post exilic books of the bible show signs of having incorporated many ideas that are er there in their own context in ancient iranian religion. In zarathustra's revelation, i've mentioned e good and evil, mentioned heaven and hell, but also the ideaof rastadeas isitaten intote, which come into the prophetic books and into the postexilic books. This is indisputable it's taken a long time for scholars of judaism really to come to terms with the amount of extraneous influence that seems to be there. But i think now it's generally accepted that the way in which the post exilic books have changed is that their distinct nd and also the dead sea crolls the cumran community. And then we can see these ideas in christianity filtering through this idea of eschatology, ideas of judgment, ideas of future life. These, these then take on a much larger role in both judaism and christianity. What

about the idea of the saviour?