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***The idea of resurrection came to the Jews via the Zoroastrians.***

Not according to Jesus...

"The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, ...

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God... And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."

(That's from Exodus 3:6 - Moses' era, but there are earlier examples.)

***Later, the idea was extended by the time of Daniel to include individual resurrection as well.***

Really?

"For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
yet in my flesh I shall see God,
whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another." - Job 19

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another." - Job 19

Good catch. Job is about the oldest book in the OT if i remember correctly.

The Sadducees opposed resurrection. The Pharisees - the forerunners of Rabbinic Judaism, accepted it. Ezekiel speaks in the plural sense so it signified to the Jews in Exile their nation would be reborn. During the Hellenistic Era, in Daniel, the motif was worked further to differentiate between the righteous and the wicked - some who awaken to everlasting life and others abhorrent who sleep forever in the dust. There is the notion of resurrection in the nature of individual destiny and it depends on our good conduct. It also prefigures later Christian thought of the division of the afterlife into the realms of Heaven and Hell.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)