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Penitential Sections of the Xorde Avesta (patits)

Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary

David Buyaner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 519 Seiten

2016
Harrassowitz Verlag
978-3-447-10603-0 (ISBN)

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The Zand i Xorde Awesta, the Pahlavi version of the compilation of Avestan liturgical texts with the traditional name "Small Avesta" (Xorde Awesta), is one of the main monuments of the corpus of Pahlavi translations and commentaries (called zand) of Avestan original texts. Since the Xorde Awesta and its Pahlavi version consist of a variety of heterogeneous texts which belong to different strata of Zoroastrian literature, they are not only sources of utmost importance for Avestan and Pahlavi philology, but also for the history of Zoroastrianism, and, especially in its penitential sections, for the reconstruction of Zoroastrian law. The recitals of repentance called Pad d i pas manih ("Penitentiary prayer for repentance", in two versions) and Xwad pad d ("Penitentiary prayer for oneself"), which are the main focus of this project, are of great interest for the reconstruction of Zoroastrian jurisprudence, since they contain the most extensive enumeration of sins and offences, using the specific terminology of religious and criminal law. The semantic and etymological analysis of legal vocabulary is one of the most urgent desiderata of Iranian Studies. Two other significant problems in this context concern the date of the composition of the Xorde Awesta and the underlying principle of its compilation. An exact analysis of those sections of the Zand i Xorde Awesta without a prototype in the Avestan original, such as the Pad d texts, which are also known in their Pazand version (i.e. in Middle Persian written in the Avestan script), would shed light on the question as to why these compositions were included in a zand compilation and the problem of the origins of this unique source.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Iranica ; 22
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1801 g
Einbandart	Leinen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
Schlagworte	Culture Studies • Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens • Iran • Iran, Geschichte; Geistes-/Kultur-G. • Iranian Studies • Liturgical Texts • Pahlavi Studies • Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte • Zoroastrian law
ISBN-10	3-447-10603-4 / 3447106034
ISBN-13	978-3-447-10603-0 / 9783447106030
Zustand	Neuware