Sunday, March 22, 2020

Zeini, Zoroastrian scholasticism in late antiquity

BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity. Notice of a New Book: Zeini, Arash. 2020. Zoroastrian scholasticism in late antiquity. The Pahlavi version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

The Zoroastrian texts in Pahlavi often contain much earlier material and are of some interest as background for Second Temple Judaism.

Arash Zeini is founder of and contributor to the Bibliographia Iranica Blog. Some years ago he was at the University of St. Andrews on a fellowship. For more about him, see here and here and links.

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