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In his book Dominion, Tom Holland claims that the judeo-christian concept of the world being a battleground between the forces of light and darkness came from a persian concept via Darius's invasions. Is it true that Judaism before this did not see the world as having a divine enemy?

by /u/JackRadikov in /r/AskHistorians

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