Primal Creation, the seven good creations, the onslaught of the Lie, mixture, and the world’s resistance
The full systematic account is later, while parts of the creation sequence and cosmic conflict have Avestan roots.
Zoroastrian sacred time; preserved systematically in later Middle Persian texts · prequel→historyZarathustra and the Gathic revelation
Traditional/eFireTemple chronology · prequel→historyFrashokereti, resurrection, final judgment, and the final Sōšāns receive fuller expression
later Zoroastrian tradition · prequel→historyZoroastrian traditions spread among Iranian peoples and western Iranian Magi develop changing priestly roles
c. first millennium BCE · prequel→historyCyrus conquers Babylon and restoration policies are recorded in several traditions
539 BCE · prequel→historyPythagoras studies in Babylon among Magi and Babylonian scholars
Useful for historical fiction, not secure contemporary biography.
c. 525–520 BCE in later tradition · prequel→historyJerusalem and its temple restored under Persian rule
late sixth–fifth centuries BCE · prequel→historyDarius I and the Behistun inscription oppose the Lie in royal ideology
522–486 BCE · prequel→historyAlexander defeats Darius III at Gaugamela
331 BCE · prequel→historyPersepolis is burned during Alexander’s conquest
330 BCE · prequel→historyGrowth of Enochic and other Jewish apocalyptic traditions
third–first centuries BCE · prequel→historyPharisee, Sadducee, and apocalyptic movements contest resurrection and the unseen world
2nd–1st centuries BCE · prequel→historyJesus and Saul enter different worlds shaped by Second Temple disputes
Turn of the era · prequel→historyThe Book of Diesel openly backdates its literary voice and publishes the Seven Woes Against Daniel before the story
Modern era · prequel→historyPairi-daēza and related Iranian forms name enclosed or walled gardens
Iranian antiquity and Achaemenid period · prequel→historyThe Iranian garden-word passes into Greek paradeisos and later European and Semitic languages
Classical period onward · prequel→historyPersepolis Fortification Archive records workers, travelers, rations, officials, priests, and royal households
The tablets recover ordinary imperial life that royal narratives usually omit.
c. 509–494 BCE · prequel→historyParthian occupation of Judea and installation of Antigonus
The event shaped the political memory behind Herod’s Roman-supported kingship.
40–39 BCE · prequel→historyHouse of Questions and early Magian instruction
Good Mind, Asha, Daniel, parables, and the Father beyond borders.
Ages twelve to fifteen · missing→historyJourneys through gardens, wells, Gerizim, and Babylonian diaspora communities
Real historical settings used for invented travel stories.
Ages fourteen to eighteen · missing→historyHealing apprenticeship and development of parabolic teaching
The Gospel’s later themes are foreshadowed without claiming direct sources.
Ages sixteen to twenty · missing→historySaul’s formation in Tarsus and Jerusalem
Paul’s self-descriptions ground the parallel; childhood scenes are invented.
Contemporary with Jesus’s youth · missing→historyEncounters with Pharisaic, Sadducean, Samaritan, and apocalyptic worlds
Historically real disagreements carried through fictional individuals.
Ages twenty-three to twenty-seven · missing→historyJoseph’s fictional death and the crisis of paradise
The canonical texts do not narrate Joseph’s death.
Late twenties · missing→historyThe final journey east and the archive of failed signs
Jesus meets the final imagined survivor of Matthew’s Magi.
c. 29–30 CE · missing→historySaul persecutes the Jesus movement and later claims revelation
Reserved for a later Pauline Turn site; only foreshadowed here.
After Jesus’s death · missing→historyZarathustra and the revelation of Asha
The starting point for Diesel’s long chronology: truth/order, moral choice, judgment, restoration, and the Saoshyant belong to the older Iranian religious stream.
eFireTemple chronology · bible→historyThe Magi establish the Second Road before entering Jerusalem
Matthew records the Magi and alternate route; the protection plan is invented.
Late first century BCE to early first century CE in the novel’s chronology · prequel→historyThe Persian prequel ends outside Jerusalem
The story’s final sentence flows into Matthew’s arrival of Magi from the east.
Immediately before Matthew 2:1 · prequel→historyElephantine temple of Yaho destroyed; community appeals for rebuilding
Surviving papyri preserve Persian, Judean, Egyptian, and local actors.
410–407 BCE · prequel→historyYahwistic sacred precinct develops on Mount Gerizim
The form and date of the earliest sanctuary remain debated.
5th–2nd centuries BCE · prequel→historyThe Magian Council tests the expected helper
Jesus rejects worship, political machinery, and the throne.
Ages twenty-six to twenty-eight · missing→historyJesus walks toward the Jordan
Luke 3:23 dates the beginning of ministry to about thirty.
About age thirty · missing→historyThe wilderness voice ends the missing years
The fiction stops before Luke dates the public world and narrates John, baptism, and Jesus at about thirty.
Threshold of Luke 3 · missing→historyIdeas move, texts develop, dates are contested
The timeline separates an event’s claimed setting from the period in which a text may have reached its final form.
Persian and Hellenistic periods · bible→historyTruth, light, paradise, resurrection, judgment
The study engine compares Jesus’ teaching with older Iranian concepts while distinguishing inheritance, parallel development, and direct identity claims.
Adult ministry · bible→historyFrom magoi to “wise men”
The interface restores the Greek identifier alongside the familiar English rendering and lets readers examine what is clarified or blurred by each choice.
Later translation and tradition · bible→