Certain scholars claim that Zoroastrianism had an enormous impact on Judaism following the exile of the Jews in the 6th century BCE while others claim the opposite with Judaism influencing Zoroastrianism. If the former is a serious and a probable claim, why isn't it taken more serious in the field? The Gathas text, although quite different from the Avesta texts that emerged in the common era, still contains original and innovative interpretations of monotheism that clearly has a noticeable pattern in Abrahamic religions (Devil and Angels, resurrection, free will, praying 5 times a day specifically found in Islam and so on). Are there books written by respectable historians that expound on this hypothesis?
“Cyrus will bring forth justice to the nations,….He will not fail….. till he has established justice in the earth.” Isaiah 42-1,4.
I think that a majority of historians and biblical scholars find that Persian beliefs influenced Judaism, and probably not the other way around. It was in post-exile Judaism, after contact with Cyrus's Persians, that a greater emphasis on the next life would be found - while this might reflect the trauma of the Babylonian captivity, it also parallels Zoroastrian beliefs regarding the importance of the afterlife compared to our time on earth.
Source: Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, by Mary Boyce.