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The Bundahisn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation
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The Bundahisn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation Hardcover - 2020

by Domenico Agostini (Editor); Domenico Agostini (Translator); Samuel Thrope (Editor)


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  • Title The Bundahisn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation
  • Author Domenico Agostini (Editor); Domenico Agostini (Translator); Samuel Thrope (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2020-08-25
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780190879044 / 0190879041
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.88 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Zoroastrianism, Pahlavi language
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019040657
  • Dewey Decimal Code 891.53

About the author

Domenico Agostini is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Tel Aviv University. He has been the recipient of the Prix Pirasteh in Persian Studies at the Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris (2008) and the Polonsky fellowship for Outstanding postdoctoral researchers (2013-2017). He has published extensively in the field of the Zoroastrian apocalyptic ideas and Middle Persian literature.

Samuel Thrope is a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a fellow of the Martin Buber Society at Hebrew University. His translation of Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad's The Israeli Republic was published in 2017, and he is co-editor, with Roberta Cassagrande-Kim and Raquel Ukeles, of the 2018 exhibition catalogue Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past.

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