 The growing collection of scriptures was translated into Greek in the Hellenistic period by the Jews of the Egyptian diaspora, while the Babylonian Jews produced the court tales of the Book of Daniel (chapters 1–6 of Daniel – chapters 7–12 were a later addition), and the books of Tobit and Esther.Other scholars contend that the development of a strict monotheism was the result of cultural diffusion between Persians and Hebrews.While (in practice) dualistic, Zoroastrianism believed in eschatological monotheism (i.e.