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The Romans tended to associate other cultures' faiths with their own. Why did this not happen with Judaism/Christianity or Zoroastrianism? Why did the Romans not assume YHVH or Ahura Mazda was, for example, an interpretation of Jupiter?

by /u/megami-hime in /r/AskHistorians

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