Re: CHAT: Zoroastrian influences on Post-exilic Judaism

Steg wrote:

> Although, interesting from a sociological point of view, both Esther and
> Mordekhai's non-Hebrew names aren't just non-Jewish, but come from Ishtar
> and Marduk, Babylonian deities!  Imagine the amount of assimilation that
> could lead to that - ¿ever heard of a Jew named Jesús? :-)
There are certainly Jews named "Natalie" = "Christmas-child".

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