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Nimrod = Zoroaster (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


 		Keywords
Nimrod
Zoroaster
Period
4th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 1.3.2-3:
Nimrod, the son of Cush the Ethiopian, the father of Aššur, ruled as a king. … The Greeks say that he is Zoroaster and that he went on futher east and became the pioneer settler of Bactria. Every transgression in the world was disseminated in this time, for Nimrod was an originator of wrong teaching, astrology and magic, which is what some say of Zoroaster. But in actual fact this was the time of Nimrod the giant; the two, Nimrod and Zoroaster, are far apart in time.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 1.3.2-3

Bibliography

van der Toorn and van der Horst 1990, 26-27van der Toorn, K. and P. W. van der Horst. “Nimrod before and after the Bible.” Harvard Theological Review 83 (1990) 1-16. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]
Williams 1987, 16-17Williams, Frank. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book I (Sects 1-46). Nag Hammadi Studies 35. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1987.

Amar Annus


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