Textual sources for the study of Zoroastrianism (Record no. 70969)
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| fixed length control field | 03519 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0226069303 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 295 |
| Item number | BOY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Boyce, Mary |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Textual sources for the study of Zoroastrianism |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | University of Chicago Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1990 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Chicago |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 166p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | General introduction vii<br/>Acknowledgements viii<br/>Abbreviations viii<br/>Foreword ix<br/>1. Introduction 1<br/>1.1. The textual sources 1<br/>1.2. The religious background to Zoroastrianism 8<br/>1.3. Zarathushtra and his teachings 11<br/>1.4. Some reasons for diversity in modern studies of Zoroastrianism 15<br/>1.5. The ancient Iranian world picture 17<br/>1.6. The seven holy days of obligation 18<br/>1.7. The Zoroastrian calendar 19<br/>1.8. The Zoroastrian ’world year’ 20<br/>1.9. Chronological background to the texts 22<br/>2. Tradition and doctrine 27<br/>2.1. Ancient materials from the Yashts 27<br/>2.2. Verses from the Gathas 34<br/>2.3. Passages from the Zand of lost Avestan texts 45<br/>3. Worship, prayer and confession 53<br/>3.1. Selections from Yasna Haptanhaiti 53<br/>3.2. Passages from the yasna liturgy accompanying the preparation of the haoma offering 55<br/>3.3. The four great prayers 56<br/>3.4. The creed (Fravarane) 57<br/>3.5. The kusti prayers 58<br/>3.6. The Hamazor 59<br/>3.7. The benediction, or prayer for health (tan-dorosti) 59<br/>3.8. From a general confession, Patet i Khwad 60<br/>4. Rules and observances 61<br/>4.1. The cult of fire 61<br/>4.2. Concerning human ’nasa’ and the proper disposal of the dead 64<br/>4.3. On ’taking the baj’ 66<br/>4.4. Festivals 67<br/>5. The life and legend of Zarathustra 71<br/>5.1. Passages from Younger Avestan texts 71<br/>5.2. Passages from the Zand of lost Avestan texts 72<br/>5.3. Kavi Vishtaspa and the early wars of the faith 77<br/>6. The fate of the soul at death, and a vision of heaven and hell 80<br/>6.1. The fate of the soul, from Younger Avestan texts 80<br/>6.2. The fate of the soul, from Pahlavi sources 82<br/>6.3. A vision of heaven and hell, from Arda Viraz Namag 84<br/>7. Apocalyptic texts 90<br/>7.1. On the coming of the Saoshyant, from Yasht 19 90<br/>7.2. On the three World Saviours, from the Zand 90<br/>7.3. On the seven ages of the world, and the coming of the Saviours, from the Zand of Vahman Yasht 91<br/>7.4. On Yima’s var, from Vendidad 2 94<br/>8. A Zoroastrian heresy: Zurvanism 96<br/>8.1. A citation from Theopompus 96<br/>8.2. Versions of the myth of Zurvan and his twin Sons 97<br/>9. Dogmatic passages from ninth-century Pahlavi books 99<br/>9.1. From ’Selected Precepts of the Ancient Sages’ 99<br/>9.2. From Shkand-gumanig Vizar, the ’Doubt-dispelling Exposition’ 101<br/>10. Historical texts 104<br/>10.1. From the Achaemenian period 104<br/>10.2. From the Parthian period 108<br/>10.3. From the Sasanian period 109<br/>10.4. Passages concerning the Arab conquest and the early centuries of Islam 115<br/>10.5. Concerning the Irani and Parsi communities, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries A. C. 117<br/>10.6. From the reports of Europeans, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries 123<br/>11. The faith in modern times: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 132<br/>11.1. From nineteenth-century European writings on Zoroastrian dualism 132<br/>11.2. Passages from Parsi theosophical writings 135 <br/>11.3. Writings by moderate and radical reformists 139<br/>11.4. Tradition in belief and practice 144<br/>11.5. Matters of controversy 153<br/>11.6. Restatements and reappraisal 157<br/>Bibliography 161<br/>Glossarial index 165 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | India |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | Gratis |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Stepwells |
| -- | Pahlavi literature |
| -- | Avestan language |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Landscape gardening |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Architecture | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | Processing Center | 06/06/2023 | 73 | 0.00 | 295 BOY | 024988 | 06/06/2023 | 3903.00 | 06/06/2023 | Book |