Editing Basilides (section)

===''Expositions of the Prophet Parchor''===
Isidore's ''Expositions of the Prophet Parchor'' taught the higher thoughts of heathen philosophers and mythologers were derived from Jewish sources.{{sfn|Hort|1911}} So, by quoting the philosopher [[Pherecydes of Syros|Pherecydes]], who had probably a peculiar interest for Isidore as the earliest promulgator of the doctrine of metempsychosis known to tradition,<ref>{{harvnb|Hort|1911}} cites Cf. Zeller, ''Philos. d. Griechen'', i. 55 f. ed. 3.</ref> Isidore was proving his validity as a descendant of the prophets.{{sfn|Hort|1911}}

Isidore's allegation that Pherecydes followed "the prophecy of [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]]" was also used to claim that the apocryphal Zoroastrian books had quasi-biblical sanctity as proceeding from Zoroaster, a son of Noah; so Isidore gladly accepted the theory as evidence for his argument.{{sfn|Hort|1911}}