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→historyDarius I and the Behistun inscription oppose the Lie in royal ideology
522–486 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→historyThe Book of Diesel openly backdates its literary voice and publishes the Seven Woes Against Daniel before the story
Modern era · prequel→historyThe Iranian garden-word passes into Greek paradeisos and later European and Semitic languages
Classical period onward · prequel→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→historyParthian occupation of Judea and installation of Antigonus
The event shaped the political memory behind Herod’s Roman-supported kingship.
40–39 BCE · prequel→historyJesus and Saul enter different worlds shaped by Second Temple disputes
Turn of the era · prequel→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→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→historyHouse of Questions and early Magian instruction
Good Mind, Asha, Daniel, parables, and the Father beyond borders.
Ages twelve to fifteen · 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→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→historyA broad scholarly range often proposed for the historical Zarathustra
The date remains disputed.
late second–early first millennium BCE · prequel→historyZoroastrian traditions spread among Iranian peoples and western Iranian Magi develop changing priestly roles
c. first millennium BCE · prequel→historyReign of Cyrus II the Great
559–530 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→historyCommon proposed range for Esther’s composition
third–second centuries BCE · prequel→historyAlexander defeats Darius III at Gaugamela
331 BCE · prequel→historyPersepolis is burned during Alexander’s conquest
330 BCE · prequel→historyMatthew’s Magi come from the east
Gospel setting · prequel→historyThe House of Welcome/House of Song is contrasted with the House of the Lie
A morally differentiated blessed destination appears in the Gathas.
Gathic period · prequel→historyPairi-daēza and related Iranian forms name enclosed or walled gardens
Iranian antiquity and Achaemenid period · prequel→historyLuke 23:43 places “paradise” on the lips of Jesus
The prequel treats this as a major Persian-language echo while distinguishing etymology from proof of direct theological borrowing.
First century CE Gospel tradition · prequel→historyArtaxerxes I grants refuge to Themistocles
The former Greek enemy later governs cities in Persian-controlled Asia Minor.
c. 465 BCE onward · prequel→historyThe Persian saga releases the witness to Matthew
The fictional final line stops as the Magi enter Jerusalem; Matthew 2 becomes the next witness.
Immediately before Matthew 2:1 · prequel→historyThe novel’s Covenant of the Cord
Inspired by Zoroastrian initiation, but no source links Jesus to navjote or the kusti.
Age twelve · missing→historyJourneys through gardens, wells, Gerizim, and Babylonian diaspora communities
Real historical settings used for invented travel stories.
Ages fourteen to eighteen · missing→historyEncounters with Pharisaic, Sadducean, Samaritan, and apocalyptic worlds
Historically real disagreements carried through fictional individuals.
Ages twenty-three to twenty-seven · missing→historyThe magoi recognize Jesus
Foreign religious specialists from the east identify the main character before Jerusalem’s establishment.
Matthew 2 · bible→historyThe Magi’s student hypothesis
Diesel investigates whether the opening relationship continued during the years the canonical narratives do not describe.
Jesus’ undocumented years · bible→historyYahwistic sacred precinct develops on Mount Gerizim
The form and date of the earliest sanctuary remain debated.
5th–2nd centuries BCE · prequel→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→historyDemocedes serves as a Greek physician at Darius I’s court
Herodotus is the principal narrative source; private court scenes remain reconstructed.
c. 522 BCE onward · prequel→historyElephantine temple of Yaho destroyed; community appeals for rebuilding
Surviving papyri preserve Persian, Judean, Egyptian, and local actors.
410–407 BCE · prequel→historyRome recognizes Herod as king; Herod takes Jerusalem
This context makes an eastern delegation asking about a new king especially charged.
40–37 BCE · prequel→historyLuke’s twelve-year-old Jesus remains in Jerusalem among teachers
Luke 2:41–52; the Second Road observer is fictional.
c. 6–12 CE · missing→historyCyrus captures Babylon
The Persian restoration becomes the central transmission hinge in the Asha Study Bible.
539 BCE · bible→