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Título The Bundahisn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation
Autor Domenico Agostini (Editor); Domenico Agostini (Translator); Samuel Thrope (Editor)
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Páginas 264
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Oxford University Press, USA
Fecha de publicación 2020-08-25
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780190879044 / 0190879041
Peso 1.25 libras (0.57 kg)
Dimensiones 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 pulgadas (23.88 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
Temas
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
Library of Congress subjects Zoroastrianism, Pahlavi language
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2019040657
Dewey Decimal Code 891.53

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Domenico Agostini is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Tel Aviv University. He has been the recipient of the Prix Pirasteh in Persian Studies at the Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris (2008) and the Polonsky fellowship for Outstanding postdoctoral researchers (2013-2017). He has published extensively in the field of the Zoroastrian apocalyptic ideas and Middle Persian literature.

Samuel Thrope is a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a fellow of the Martin Buber Society at Hebrew University. His translation of Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad's The Israeli Republic was published in 2017, and he is co-editor, with Roberta Cassagrande-Kim and Raquel Ukeles, of the 2018 exhibition catalogue Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past.

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Hardback. New. The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most important surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature in the Middle Persian language and to pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Despite having been composed some two millennia after the Prophet Zoroaster's revelation, it is nonetheless a concise compendium of ancient Zoroastrian knowledge that draws on and reshapes earlier layers of the tradition. Well known in the field of Iranian Studies as an essential primary source for scholars of ancient Iran's history, religions, literatures, and languages, the Bundahisn is also a great work of literature in and of itself, ranking alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions. The book's thirty-six diverse chapters, which touch on astronomy, eschatology, zoology, medicine, and more, are composed in a variety of styles, registers,… Leer más