A public lecture will be presented to the Melbourne Sea of Faith Network by David Miller from the Existentialist Society on Thursday 18 September 2014, 7.30pm at the Carlton Library. The topic will be Zarathustra: Zoroaster’s influence on the Abrahamic Faiths.
A public lecture will be presented to the Melbourne Sea of Faith Network by David Miller from the Existentialist Society on Thursday 18 September 2014, 7.30pm at the Carlton Library. The topic will be Zarathustra: Zoroaster’s influence on the Abrahamic Faiths. This lecture is a continuation of an earlier lecture delivered previously.
“During the third millennium BC, the nomadic cattle-herders of the steppe-lands north of the Caspian and Aral Seas started moving south-east. We know them as the proto-Indo-Iranians. In the sixteenth century BC their charioteers invaded India carrying with them their language, related to archaic Sanskrit, as well as their primeval religion. In India this religion became the Vedic and eventually the Vedantic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, etc.
Meanwhile, back in Khwarezmia and Bactria, circa 1400 BC, Zarathustra (Zoroaster) reformed that primeval religion. In 550 BC Zoroastrianism was utilised as the religious ideology in the formation of the Persian Empire. Ten years later the Empire rescued the Jews from their Babylonian Exile and sent them back to Jerusalem to rebuild their Temple. Over the next several centuries, Zoroastrian concepts increasingly influenced Judaism; particularly its radical elements, the Pharisees and Christians.”
- What: Public Lecture by Sofia Network Australia
- When: 8 September 2014, 7.30pm
- Where: Carlton Library Meeting Room, corner Rathdowne and Newry Streets, North Carlton. Melways Map: 2B J2.
- Presenter: David Miller (Existentialist Society)
- Topic: “Zarathustra: Zoroaster’s influence on the Abrahamic Faiths”
- All are welcome. Gold coin donation appreciated.
Source: http://www.sof-in-australia.org/
