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THE .JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

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whole of the history of the non-Jewish world, from the |)oint wlien the Habyloniau power first conies into

This tend of lie IVisiaii rrlifiion lias not l)oen without its iiilliR'iicc upon the icU-as of later .Iu(hiisni. As late a writer even as the Deutero-Isaiah (Isa. xlv. T) e.|)resses himself in sueh a way as to exclude beyond question any dualism in religion, if we are not to interpret his words as beini; a direct attack on the Parsee doctrine, a god of light and a I

contact with Israel down to Aiitiochus Epiplianes, constitutes merely an outburst of the ill will and enmity of the kingdoms ipon the earth against God and His chosen people. Dualism is even more clearly marked in the Book of Daniel than it is in the Parsee religion, for the divine and the .secular kingdoms are iniubli' to exist side bv side. The use that is made in 1 Chron. xxi. 1 of

god of darkness. But after the Exile the Jewish mind liecomes unable to refer to God, as formerly, everything that

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