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09 Jun 2011, 9:49 am

arielhawksquillis has the crazy Egyptian at 1340 BCe
is that farther back than the bible?
the rabbis put Moshe at 1391–1271 BCE
has any one accused Akenaten as being pharaoh in exodus?
that would make a great novel.

Abe is set at 1812 BCE by jewish tradition
Zaraϑuštra is 1750 to 500 BCE making him a close winner or last place.

its gunna come down to who is really a monotheist and the real age of zoroaster.

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09 Jun 2011, 9:56 am

I think I deserve some credit for my answer. And where are point totals posted? How many do I have (if any)? What are the prizes?

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09 Jun 2011, 11:34 am

dionysian wrote:

I think I deserve some credit for my answer. And where are point totals posted? How many do I have (if any)? What are the prizes?

Umm...You did not answer clearly... Which comes first?The chicken and the egg?

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09 Jun 2011, 11:37 am

Philologos wrote:

Insufficient data as currently worded.

Do we take a particular document - for argument, the Torah - to be authoritative revelation and locate the first listed monotheist? [and if so would the first created human count?]

Do we take the available record of human history and select the earliest documented monotheist?

Do we include the possibility of theist aliens predating umans somewhere in the Kosmos?

Do we let belief in angels, dryads, ancestor spirits and the like undermine a person'de status as monotheist?

How do we handle trinities and other X-in-ones and avatars?

Would a serial polytheism [not quite like the Mormons, think Tammuz maybe] count as monotheism?

I think this answer is much better. I hope someone would like to give it a limit.
I do not think the question has an answer.

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09 Jun 2011, 11:49 am

Much will depend not so much on dates [which at this level are not much help] but on where Zoroaster selbst puts Ahriman. Seems there are different reads on this - co-god versus nasty angel / demon.

I am not up on this.

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09 Jun 2011, 11:50 am

Quote:

Do we take the available record of human history and select the earliest documented monotheist?

this looks like the best way

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09 Jun 2011, 12:09 pm

The wise teacher so designs the test questions that the students can NOT make annoying quibbles.

"But sir, you did not say the earliest "documented". The way you worded it you can see my answer deserves full marks.

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