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It's hardly copy/pasting, and there are at least 2 other ways to view this:
1) The Middle East is a dynamic region, where a great deal of human migration has always taken place, leading to a great deal of cross-cultural influence that predates Zoroaster by at least a couple thousand years, and more likely 3-5000. Also, Abraham and Mose both predate Zoroaster, so why are the Jews included here? The Jews maybe have picked up some Zoroastrian influence (the degree of influence is debated still) during the Babylon Captivity, but enough to have it called cutting and pasting.
2) Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad are all 'representatives' or 'manifestations' of the same single God, appearing to mankind at different time, in different places, according to the needs of the people to whom they appeared. This theory is called 'progressive revelation'. You can go ogle it.
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