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Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expansion of the Ratanbai Katrak Lectures given in Oxford in 1975 describing a year spent by the author in the city of Yazd and the Zoroastrian village of Sharifabad.
Author: Mary Boyce
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 284
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 320
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Author: Mary Boyce
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789004088474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9004294007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary 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.
Author: Mary Boyce
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Boyce
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780415239028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZoroastrianism is of enormous importance in the history of religions. It became the state religion of the three great Iranian empires and influenced other world faiths: northern Buddhism and Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Author: Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0300170351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZoroastrianism 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: Mary Boyce
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9789004065062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Boyce
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9004293914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
