Zoroastrian Scholasticism in late antiquity : The Pahlavi version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti / Arash Zeini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeini, Arash, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia.

Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avesta. Yasna. Haptanhāiti--Commentaries.

Avesta.

Zoroastrianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 401 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface

Preface

Conventions

Abbreviations

Part I Introduction

1. Introduction

2. The Zand

3. Scholasticism

4. Fire in Zoroastrianism

5. Precis: yasn ī haft hād

Part II Text and translation

6. PY 35

7. PY 36

8. PY 37

9. PY 38

10. PY 39

11. PY 40

12. PY 41

Part III Miscellaneous observations

13. PY 35

14. PY 36

15. PY 37

16. PY 38

17. PY 39

18. PY 40

19. PY 41

Part IV Epilogue

20. Reflections on the Zand

Appendices

A. Transliteration and apparatus

B. Y 9.1

C. Fire in the Older Avesta

D. iϑā

E. MSS Concordance

Bibliography

Index of passages quoted

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-4290-0

1-4744-4291-9

OCLC:

1312727011