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Ideas of Zoroaster, by Text

[Persian, fl. 900 BCE, Prophet and hymn-writer, also known as 'Zarathustra'. Dates unsure.]

900BCE The Gathas (seventeen hymns)
p.37 Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Armstrong,K]
p.153 Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept
p.247 Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Harari]