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| | Zarathustra and The Myths of Revelation |
 | | set by the Christian calendar, an observer skeptical of the eschatological visions of doomsday apocalyptics might yet consider that mankind is passing through a crisis in human history as a whole, the end of a long beginning since the passing of the last Ice Age. |
 | | and after, resurfacing strongly during the Qumranic period near the birth of Christianity, is one of the most confusing overlays of the period of cultural advance and integration that occurred with a center of gravity ca. |
 | | And in fact Christianity and Islam arise much later, but seem to look backward to this period, whose actual core shows something quite different, the history of a Canaanite culture zone, ‘Israel/Judah’, whose religious traditions suddenly transform into a monotheistic vehicle, as it sows the seeds of the religions to come. |
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