I followed a Beckwithian footnote down the rabbit hole of Zarathustra and Ancient Persian history
from ~500BC to ~500AD, interestingly mediated by Persia, which controlled the routes between. Then, Huns, and then, Islam :(
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@Meaningness I am reading about the 5th c. BC period- Gandhāra & the Formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian Canons https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9887626/Gandh%C4%81ra%20and%20the%20formation%20of%20the%20Vedic%20and%20Zoroastrian%20canons%20copy_0.pdf?sequence=1 … -
Michael Witzel is one of the sources for
@Jayarava ’s work on early Buddhism, which is worth checking out - 1 more reply
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Witzel describes how the Persian's tried to rationalize the religions in its empire by Making them choose a canon and write it
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The Persian Emperor was directly responsible for Canon creation of the Torah through his employee Ezra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra
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