Handbuch der Orientalistik
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1989 |
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ISBN | : 9789004092716 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1989 |
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ISBN | : 9789004092716 |
Author | : Mary Boyce |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Zoroastrianism |
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Author | : Mary Boyce |
Publisher | : E.J. Brill |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Zoroastrianism |
ISBN | : 9789004065062 |
Author | : Prods Oktor Skjærvø |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300170351 |
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions, though it is not among the best understood. Originating with Iranian tribes living in Central Asia in the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Iranian empires until Islam superseded it in the seventh century AD. Centered on the worship of Ahura Mazda, the All-knowing Ruler, Zoroastrianism follows the practices and rituals set out by the prophet Zarathustra, according to the indigenous tradition. As one of the world's great religions, Zoroastrianism has a heritage rich in texts and cultic practices. The texts are often markedly difficult to translate, but in this volume, Prods Oktor Skjærvø, professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at Harvard, provides modern and accurate translations of Zoroastrian texts that have been selected to provide an overview of Zoroastrian beliefs and practices. In a comprehensive introduction to these sacred texts, Skjærvø outlines the history and essence of Zoroastrianism and discusses the major themes of this the first fully representative selection of Zoroastrian texts to be made available in English for over a century.
Author | : Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Zoroastrianism |
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Author | : Mary Boyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Zoroastrianism |
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Author | : Paula Hartz |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Zoroastrianism |
ISBN | : 1438117809 |
Traces the history and beliefs of Zoroastrianism and its followers determination through centuries of persecution and hardship into the present day. The Iranian and Indian Zoroastrian communities in which the religion has thrived without missionary efforts or vast numb numbers of believers is also explored.
Author | : Sarah Stewart |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0857728156 |
For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the third century AD as the state religion of the Sasanian Empire, it enjoyed imperial patronage and profoundly shaped the culture of antiquity. The Magi of the New Testament most probably were Zoroastrian priests from the Iranian world, while the enigmatic figure of Zarathushtra (or Zoroaster) himself has exerted continual fascination in the West, influencing creative artists as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche, Mozart and Yeats. This authoritative volume brings together internationally recognised scholars to explore Zoroastrianism in all its rich complexity. Examining key themes such as history and modernity, tradition and scripture, art and architecture and minority status and religious identity, it places the modern Zoroastrians of Iran, and the Parsis of India, in their proper contexts. The book extends and complements the coverage of its companion volume, The Everlasting Flame.
Author | : Mary Boyce |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004293914 |
This volume traces the history of Zoroastrianism at times and places where its existence has previously been largely ignored, or treated only episodically. Literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence has been drawn on (some of it only recently brought to light), and local developments are distinguished. In Iran itself some 200 years of Macedonian rule had little effect on the national religion. To the east, Zoroastrianism survived in the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms and under Mauryan suzereinty, where it came into contact with Buddhism. In Eastern Mediterranean lands it was maintained by Iranian expatriates well down into Roman imperial times. They adopted Greek for their written tongue, and Zoroastrian doctrines thus became known in the Greco-Roman world. Study is made accordingly of Zoroastrian contributions to Hellenistic thought, and to Judaism, Christianity and Mithraism; and an excursus provides a thorough reassessment of the Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha.
Author | : Mary Boyce |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1990-10-15 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780226069302 |
"Boyce is a, perhaps the, world authority on Zoroastrianism. . . . Prefaced by a 27-page introduction, this anthology contains selections which offer a complete picture of Zoroastrian belief, worship and practice. There are historical texts from the sixth century B.C. onwards, and extracts from modern Zoroastrian writings representing traditionalism, occultism and reformist opinion. Anyone wishing to know more about this 'least well known of the world religions' should sample these selections."—The Methodist Church "Wide-ranging. . . . An indispensable one-volume collection of primary materials."—William R. Darrow, Religious Studies Review