1st Edition
The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis
By Enrico Raffaelli
Copyright 2014
368 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the Sīh-rōzag , a text worshipping Zoroastrian divine entities, this book explores the spiritual principles and physical realities associated with them. Introducing the book is an overview of the structural, linguistic and historico-religious elements of the Avestan Sīh-rōzag . This overview, as well as reconstructing its approximate... Read more
1 General notes on the Sih-Rozag 2 The Manuscript Tradition 3 Edition and Translation 4 Commentary
Biography
Enrico G. Raffaelli is Professor of theHistory of Zoroastrianism at the University of Toronto. His research concentrates on the pre-Islamic phase of the Zoroastrian religion, with a particular focus on the study of the Avestan and Middle Persian literature.
"It is indeed a fine philological inquiry and should become a standard reference work on that Avestan text among scholars of Iranian languages and of the textual tradition of Zoroastrianism"
Prof Jamsheed K Chosky, Indiana University, Fezana Journal
