Judaism as the Demonic Opposite of Zoroastrianism
He made the Torah, the fundamental book of Judaism, and built Jerusalem in order to keep [the Torah?] in it. Dahāg first came to Abraham, the chief of the Jews, and from Abraham to Moses, whose bond is feeble, and whom the Jews hold as a prophet and a bringer of [their] faith, and found ease [?]. He found Moses, and propagated the Jewish faith…
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Other passages preserved in the Dēnkard associate Judaism with evil—a particularly damning assertion in a dualistic system like Zoroastrianism. It is difficult to determine the source of these troubling and confusing presentations of Judaism, especially regarding Judaism’s descent from the Zoroastrian demonic figure Dahāg.
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