Description:Focusing on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the "Sih-rozag," 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 "Sih-rozag." This overview, as well as reconstructing its approximate chronology, helps in understanding the original ritual function of the text and its relationship to the other Avestan texts.The book then studies the translation of the text in the Middle Persian language, Pahlavi, which was produced several centuries after its initial composition, when Avestan was no longer understood by the majority of the Zoroastrian community. Addressing the lacuna in literature examining an erstwhile neglected Zoroastrian text, "The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism" includes a detailed commentary and an English translation of both the Avestan and Pahlavi version of the "Sih-rozag "and will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Iranian Studies, Religion, and History.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis. To get started finding Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
366
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2014
ISBN
1306320313
Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis
Description: Focusing on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the "Sih-rozag," 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 "Sih-rozag." This overview, as well as reconstructing its approximate chronology, helps in understanding the original ritual function of the text and its relationship to the other Avestan texts.The book then studies the translation of the text in the Middle Persian language, Pahlavi, which was produced several centuries after its initial composition, when Avestan was no longer understood by the majority of the Zoroastrian community. Addressing the lacuna in literature examining an erstwhile neglected Zoroastrian text, "The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism" includes a detailed commentary and an English translation of both the Avestan and Pahlavi version of the "Sih-rozag "and will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Iranian Studies, Religion, and History.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis. To get started finding Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.