Judaism as a Destructive Religion

Another polemical response to Judaism appears in the Dēnkard, the largest collection of Middle Persian Zoroastrian traditions to have survived from late antiquity. This passage presents Judaism as the very opposite of Zoroastrianism, which the text associates with the “rulers,” presumably a reference to the Sasanians. The effort to caution Zoroastrians to keep their distance from Jewish law suggests the proximity of the two communities.