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ISBN: 9788876533532 8876533532 Year: 2013 Volume: 50 Publisher: Roma GBP
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"The Ayādgār ī Jāmāspīg (the Memorial of Jāmāsp) is one of the most popular Zoroastrian literary texts. In all likelihood, it was designed as a layman's encyclopedia. The text has been preserved in three manuscript traditions: Pahlavi, Pāzand and Pārsi. Based on the Pārsi manuscript tradition, the best preserved of the three, Agostini presents a new and complete philological edition of this work. This rich contribution includes a commentary on the most problematic and interesting historical and religious topics that have shaped the work's narrative."-- Publisher description.
295.4 --- Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- 295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Zoroastrian eschatology. --- Zoroastrianism --- Pahlavi language --- Ayādgār ī Jāmāspīg. --- Zoroastrian eschatology --- Mazdaism --- Mazdeism --- Religions --- Mithraism --- Eschatology --- Jāmāspīg --- Jāmāsp-nāmag --- Jāmāspī --- Jāmāsp-nāma --- Memorial of Jāmāsp
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ISBN: 0190879041 9780190879044 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,
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The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most important surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature in the Middle Persian language and to pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Despite having been composed some two millennia after the Prophet Zoroaster's revelation, it is nonetheless a concise compendium of ancient Zoroastrian knowledge that draws on and reshapes earlier layers of the tradition.Well known in the field of Iranian Studies as an essential primary source for scholars of ancient Iran's history, religions, literatures, and languages, the Bundahisn is also a great work of literature in and of itself, ranking alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions. The book's thirty-six diverse chapters, which touch on astronomy, eschatology, zoology, medicine, and more, are composed in a variety of styles, registers, and genres, from spare lists and concise commentaries to philosophical discourses and poetic eschatological visions. This new translation, the first in English in nearly a century, highlights the aesthetic quality, literary style, and complexity and raises the profile of pre-Islamic Zoroastrian literature.
Pahlavi language --- Bundahishn --- Zoroastrianism
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