"Edgar Cayce's Story of the Old Testament"

This is an excellent book, and worth reading. But in my opinion, it isn't as good as the Story of Jesus. 

Maybe its just because I found reading about Jesus in a new light, more interesting than reading about the older Biblical characters. 

Regardless, it is fascinating and it sheds some light on other characters from long ago, who are not mentioned by name in the Bible. Zend and Zoroaster for instance. Zoroaster was the founder of the Magi (the wise men that mysteriously attended Jesus birth). He also started the Essence community (those who wrote the dead sea scrolls and had original copies of the bible, many written by Jesus himself.

The Essenes are not legend, they are archeological and sociological fact. But what they don't know, is the community was started by Zoroaster for the purpose of eventually creating the most perfect "vessel" for the last lifetime of the master, Jesus, through voluntary selective marriages between with the highest consciousness members of the community. 

If fact, Mary was initially just one of the candidates for being Jesus' mother (Cayce speaks of this).  By that time, after 500 years of the community perfecting themselves, Zoroaster had incarnated as Jesus' physical father, Joseph. So Mary, her parents, Joseph, his parents, and Jesus were all Essenes (considered a Jewish sect, but actually with roots stemming from the Children of the Law of One, who Zoroaster was also a teacher of.  You get the idea. Read the book. 

According to Cayce, Zend was an earlier incarnation of Jesus, and was Zoroaster's father. And where did the spiritual path called Zen come from - could there be any connection?  

Zoroaster was a major influence in the East, and several religions have sprung up from his teachings, including Zoroastrianism. He was the first of that area and time to teach of the One God, the Universal Spirit. 

Zoroaster also came up with the concepts of aligning with the forces of light, and fighting the forces of darkness.