Persian religion in the Achemenid age
A key point in the study of Achemenid religion is the date of Zarathushtra, over which scholars have been long divided. One group judged the issue on the evidence of the Gathas, the seventeen hymns attributed to the prophet. These are composed in the oldest known stage of ‘Avestan’ (the eastern Iran...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2004
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The Cambridge history of Judaism ; Vol. 1: Introduction, the Persian period
Year: 2004, Pages: 279-307 |