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SoSe 21: The Avesta in Sasanian and Early Islamic times

Alberto Cantera Glera

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Rituals in Avestan language have been performed since Antiquity. In Sasanian times several royal attempts were made for the collection of the Avestan. In this seminary, we will compare the sources describing these efforts and try to evaluate their results. Special attention will be devoted to the critical lecture of the description of the so-called Great Avesta. in the Middle Persian literature from the 9th century. close

Suggested reading

Bailey, H. W. Zoroastrian Problems in the Ninth-Century Books. Oxford: Clarendon, 1943. Cantera, A. Studien Zur Pahlavi-Übersetzung Des Avesta. Iranica, edited by M. Macuch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz., pp. 106-163 Cereti, C. "On the Pahlavi Cursive Script and the Sasanian Avesta." Studia Iranica 37 (2008): 175-95. Kellens, J. "Considerations Sur L'histoire De L'avesta." Journal Asiatique 286 (1998): 451-519. Panaino, A. "The Age of the Avestan Canon and the Origins of the Ritual Written Texts." In The Transmission of the Avesta, edited by A. Cantera, 70-97. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. Rezania, Kianoosh. "Mazdakism and the Canonisation of Pahlavi Translations of the Avestan Texts." In The Transmission of the Avesta, edited by A. Cantera, 480-94. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. West, E. W. 1892. Pahlavi texts. Part IV. Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: Oxford University Press. close