“…Furthermore, unlike Jesus of Nazareth and many early Christians, Zoroaster was not martyred and martyrdom has no place in the religion's tradition; and unlike Moses, other Jewish prophets, Jesus, many Christian saints and martyrs, and the prophet Muhammad, neither he nor his followers are reported as performing miracles (Woodward, 2000). Hence, two of the most powerful engines of historical conversion to monotheism (as modeled in Ferrero, 2014aFerrero, , 2016 are missing in Zoroastrianism, which makes its success and persistence all the more remarkable.…”