The Zoroastrian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran

Facsimile Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73472-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32/6, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia / Corpus Avesticum

Armenia was a stronghold of the Zoroastrian religion in antiquity and late antiquity. Of the rich Zoroastrian literature that was composed and transmitted in the region, no single text was extant there after long periods of cultural, political and religious changes.

The three Zoroastrian manuscripts of this facsimile edition, containing precious copies of texts in the Avestan, Pahlavi and Zoroastrian New Persian languages, are the only exception. Stemming from Iran and now preserved at the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), they are heirs of an ancient Iranian faith that once flourished also in Armenia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrés-Toledo, Miguel Ángel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Zarathustrismus, Zoroastrismus

Über Autor(innen)

Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo, Ph.D. (2009), University of Salamanca, is FEZANA Professor of Zoroastrian Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He has published several articles and monographs, including The Zoroastrian Law to Expel the Demons: Widewdad 10-15 (Harrassowitz, 2016).