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Author : William W. Malandra
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816611149
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion written by William W. Malandra and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710090904
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia Iranica written by Ehsan Yarshater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1982 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alberto Cantera
Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447065542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Transmission of the Avesta written by Alberto Cantera and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avesta is a collection of liturgical texts considered as their sacred book by the Zoroastrian community. It contains the recitatives of the Zoroastrian liturgies still celebrated in the 17th century, some of them even celebrated until today. The texts integrated in these ceremonies were composed in different places and at different times, and transmitted orally for centuries. The exact date of the fixation of the ceremonies in the shape in which they are presented in the manuscripts and the creation of the different manuscripts is unknown. But today it is proven that even after the creation of the first manuscripts, the transmission of these liturgical texts was the result of a complicated process in which not only the process of copying manuscripts but also the ritual practice and the ritual teaching were involved. The only deep analysis of the written transmission of the Avesta was made by K. F. Geldner as Prolegomena to his edition of the Avesta. Since then, many new manuscripts have appeared. In Poets, Priests, Scribes and Librarians contributions by the main experts in the transmission of the Avesta are gathered: the oral transmission, the fixation of the different collections, the first writing down, and the manuscripts. Special interest is devoted to the manuscripts. Some contributions of the volume were presented at the correspondent colloquium held in Salamanca, September 2009; others were added in order to make of the volume a comprehensive work on the different aspects of the Avestan transmission.
Author : Salvatore Gaspa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1609621123
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD written by Salvatore Gaspa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods. This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: - Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the Southern Levant - Textile terminologies in Europe and Egypt - Textile terminologies in metaphorical language and poetry - Textile terminologies: examples from China and Japan - Technical terms of textiles and textile tools and methodologies of classifications
Author : James Darmesteter
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Download or read book The Zend-Avesta written by James Darmesteter and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170351
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Zoroastrianism written by Prods Oktor Skjærvø and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pablo Vazquez
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785359622
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Sacred Gathas of Zarathushtra & the Old Avestan Canon written by Pablo Vazquez and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zarathushtra's Gathas & the Old Avestan canon are the central texts of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest continuously practiced religions in the world that has had a vast influence on the development of many other religions, philosophies, global ethics and more. Composed more than 3000 years ago, they remain surprisingly evergreen in their relevance. With this new and innovative translation, Pablo Vazquez, a Zoroastrian scholar and convert, sheds new light on these sacred texts of eternal wisdom in a way that makes them accessible to a modern audience.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521052269
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (522 download)
Download or read book The Avestan Hymn to Mithra written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, written in the fifth century BC, is the one extensive, ancient literary record of the attributes, companions and cult of the Iranian god whose worship spread, five or six centuries later, as far as Britain. Dr Gershevitch here reproduces Geldner's text and critical apparatus of the Hymn, adding his own introduction, translation and commentary. The introduction offers an orientation on the main problems concerning Mithra: how the god came to be included in the Zoroastrian religious system, his relation to Zarathustra's god Ahura Mazdah, his functions, his development from the stage at which the Indian Mitra is found in the Rig Veda, and the extent to which the Western Mithras has preserved the characteristics of the Avestan Mithra. The text is faced by the English translation, and is followed by Dr Gershevitch's exhaustive commentary.
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Total Pages : 664 pages
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Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444331353
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism written by Michael Stausberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions Evenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an introduction to Zoroaster/Zarathustra and concluding with the intersections of Zoroastrianism and other religions Reflects the global nature of Zoroastrian studies with contributions from 34 international authorities from 10 countries Presents Zoroastrianism as a cluster of dynamic historical and contextualized phenomena, reflecting the current trend to move away from textual essentialism in the study of religion
Author : Cyrus Ghani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136144668
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Iran and The West written by Cyrus Ghani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987, this volume offers a bibliography of biographies, autobiographies and books on contemporary politics by prominent 20th century figures on the topic of Iran.
Author : Kavasji Kanga
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781304365057
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Khordeh Avesta written by Kavasji Kanga and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest Zoroastrian religious scripture, handed down from ancient times, is the Avesta. One section of the holy book is known as the "Khordeh Avesta" or "Smaller (i.e. Selected) Avesta." This is the book of daily prayers of the Zoroastrians, including the most sacred prayers or manthras, as well as graces said over meals and other occasions, blessings, and hymns to spiritual beings. It is a cherished possession of every devout Zoroastrian household. Zoroastrians recite their prayers in a sacred language known as Avestan. The celebrated Avesta scholar and priest (Ervad) Kavasji Edulji Kanga prepared an edition of this prayer book in 1880 A.D., with Gujarati translation. An English edition was first printed in 1993, which has become very scarce. Due to the popularity of Kanga's editions, and the accuracy of its pronunciation, this new printed edition was prepared, correcting the frequent printer's errors found in the 1993 edition.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216041
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Xerxes written by Richard Stoneman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes’ failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes’ religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.
