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| All the rituals and doctrines from priest were becoming hollow. In Palestine and in eastern Iran, prophets arose who taught that a single God ruled the entire universe. This created Zoroastriansim and Judaism. |
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| There is a supreme God who brings goodness into the world over a evil god. Judgement, afterlife, and doing good deeds are part of both religions. The word spoken from the gods was shared and written down. |
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| People who could not comprehend the language, could not settle, and were not similar and skills the used and practiced. |
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| The natural rival of the temple priests in the Jewish tradition |
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| The prophets were counterbalanced by a priestly tradition based in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem. This religious inheritance somehow had to be reconciled as far as possible with prophetic revelations, which were sometime critical of priestly practices in the Temple. |
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