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The Image of the Zoroastrian God Srōsh

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 2021
This paper presents new and decisive evidence relative to the identification of one of the colossal depictions of deities discovered by the Karakalpak-Australian Expedition (KAE) at Akchakhan-kala with the Avestan yazata Sraosha.
F. Grenet, Michele Minardi
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The Standard Doctrine of Creation in Zoroastrian Pahlavi Texts

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021
The main scheme of creation in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature is adopted from the Young Avesta. In this scheme Ohrmazd creates the world in the manner of a skillful craftsman who conceives of the form of his product and then fashions it in matter.
A. Ahmadi
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The Co-formation of the Manichaean and Zoroastrian Religions in Third-Century Iran

Entangled Religions, 2020
The assumption that an already established Zoroastrian religion served as the source for terms, concepts, and themes, which Mani and Manichaeans appropriated and altered, is due for reassessment. Building on the work of P. O.
J. BeDuhn
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Divine procreation of the world in Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2021
There are two schemes of creation in Zoroastrianism. According to one, Ohrmazd fashions the world in the manner of a skilful craftsman. According to the second, Ohrmazd gestates and gives birth to the world. This article is about the latter. The relevant
A. Ahmadi
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Essentialism in Zoroastrian boundary construction

, 2020
The article explores tensions in contemporary Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest practiced religions, over who a “real” Zoroastrian is, what, for Zoroastrians, constitutes the essence of Zoroastrianism and how constructed collective boundaries may
Paulina Niechciał
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Some Achaemenid Zoroastrian Echoes in Early Yahwistic Sources

Iran
In her magnum opus, A History of Zoroastrianism, Mary Boyce perceptively noted that often, in the history of this Iranian religion, “developments within Iran itself have to be deduced from the ripples which they caused abroad”.
Gad Barnea
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Modern Iranian Zoroastrian Identity in Transition: Identity Strategies and Directions of Change

Journal of Persianate Studies
The article discusses the transformation of modern Zoroastrian collective identity in the diaspora in comparison with Iran. It has been inspired by Eisenstadt’s reflection on modern collective identities and is based on qualitative research in ...
Paulina Niechciał
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Rag Dolls and the Cultural Identity of Zoroastrian Female Society

Athens Journal of Demography & Anthropology
After the collapse of the Sasanian Empire, the Zoroastrians of Iran formed a community united by a shared religious identity, later evolving into an ethnic group.
A. Pashootanizadeh
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Light, Time, Motion and Impulse in the Zoroastrian Pahlavi Texts

, 2020
The present investigation concerns the category of “Time” in its dialectical relation between a limitless eternity and the limited period of the direct antagonism with Ahreman’s forces.
A. Panaino
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Zoroastrian Doctrine of Formation of Heavenly Bodies in Pahlavi Texts

, 2020
This article is about the doctrine of the formation of celestial bodies in Pahlavi texts. The doctrine is peculiar. It clashes not only with the accounts of the Gāϑā and the Younger Avesta but also with the general cosmology of Pahlavi literature ...
A. Ahmadi
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