Banners, Spears, Black Raiders and Byzantines: Some Textual Notes on Late Sasanian and post-Sasanian Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Texts
Abstract This article is a philological study of literary motifs in the Middle Persian apocalyptic work of uncertain date, Zand ī Wahman Yašt. The author claims that the motifs under his consideration in the text of ZWY (=Zand ī Wahman ī Yašt) go back to Middle Persian version of several Avestan Yaš...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Journal of Persianate studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 6, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 39-63 |
| Further subjects: | B
Middle Persian
B Avestan B Pahlavi B Iranian Apocalyptics |
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| Summary: | Abstract This article is a philological study of literary motifs in the Middle Persian apocalyptic work of uncertain date, Zand ī Wahman Yašt. The author claims that the motifs under his consideration in the text of ZWY (=Zand ī Wahman ī Yašt) go back to Middle Persian version of several Avestan Yašts, especially, to the Middle Persian translation of the second part of Yašt 1 (known as Wahman Yašt), Yašt 11, and Yašt 8. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-7167 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Persianate studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18747167-12341248 |