Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004088474
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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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: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004104747
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Mary Boyce
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Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Author: Mary Boyce
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ISBN: 9789004043190
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Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004065062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher: E.J. Brill
ISBN: 9789004065062
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Mary Boyce
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ISBN: 9789004043190
Category : Zoroastrianism
Languages : en
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Author: Bertold Spuler
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ISBN: 9789004043190
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Languages : en
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Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher:
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Category : Zoroastrianism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004294007
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Preliminary material -- GENERAL -- THE GODS OF PAGAN IRAN -- DEMONS AND EVIL-DOING, FABULOUS CREATURES, FIRST MEN AND HEROES -- DEATH, THE HEREAFTER AND FUNERAL RITES -- THE NATURE OF THE WORLD AND ITS ORIGINS -- THE PAGAN CULT -- ZOROASTER -- AHURA MAZDĀ, ANGRA MAINYU AND THE BOUNTEOUS IMMORTALS -- THE TWO STATES AND THE THREE TIMES -- THE UNRECORDED CENTURIES -- THE LEGENDS OF ZOROASTER AND HIS SONS -- THE LAWS OF PURITY -- THE ZOROASTRIAN FUNERAL RITES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.
