Ilya Gershevitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 697980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilya Gershevitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilya |
| FAMILY NAME | Gershevitch |
| SIGNATURE | GERSHEVITCH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Approaches to Zoroaster's Gathas
L'intervention de l'auteur lors d'un colloque international sur l'interpretation des hymnes Gāthās attribues a Zoroastre (628-551 av. J.-C.) (New approaches on the interpretation of the Gathas), qui s'est tenu en novembre 1993 a Croydon a l'initiative de la World Zoroastrian Organization, avait ete publiee sans les notes, releguees dans trois appendices. L'auteur propose donc, dans cet article, une nouvelle publication de son papier (Dissent and …
The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 2: The Median and Achaemenian Periods
The Cambridge History of Iran
The second volume describes the formation, in the sixth century BC, of the earliest multi-national empire, its administration, its confrontation with Greece, and its eventual dissolution under the impact of Alexander's conquest of Iran in 331 BC. This was a time of great importance in the history of the entire Middle East, and embraced figures of the stature of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes. The sources for this period are more diverse than for any ot…
Bactrian Literature
The study of Bactrian literature, under this name, has only recently emerged from adolescence. There is little text-material, and even it is largely elusive. On much of it no opinion has as yet been expressed that would help to place it within the pan-Iranian context of the present volume. Inevitably, therefore, many views here offered are personal. This is true especially in respect of the main Bactrian text, the Nokonzok inscription, on which t…
The Cambridge History of Iran: Seleucid Parthian
The third volume, published in two parts, is an account of every aspect of Iranian civilisation from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the advent of Islam in the seventh century AD. This complex period, of major importance in Iranian history and extending for almost a thousand years, encompasses the reigns of the Seleucid, the Parthian, the Kushan and Sasanian dynasties. As additions to the general objectives of these volumes, Professor Yarshat…
The Alloglottography of Old Persian
The Cambridge History of Iran: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs, Vol. 4
Volume 4 is a survey of every aspect of the civilisations which flourished in the Iranian region from the Arab conquests to the Saljuq expansion: in particular, it studies the gradual transition of Iran from Zoroastrianism to Islam, the uniting of all Iranians under one rule, the flowering into full magnificence of the Persian language, and the establishment of those other acts which were to flourish so brilliantly after the Mongol conquest. The …
W. B. Henning memorial volume
The “Sūtra of the causes and effects of actions” in Sogdian
Island-Bay and the lion
The onomasticon of the Elamite Fortification tablets from Persepolis, so generously placed at the disposal of Professor Benveniste and myself by Professor Hallock, keeps yielding precious pearls. Benveniste published in 1966 those which he had recognized. In the following year I sent to the printer a list of additional identifications, giving notice of more to follow. The present tribute to one of the giants of Iranian studies, whose massive work…
Old Iranian Literature
The Cambridge History of Iran
The Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and culture, and its contribution to the civilisation of the world. All aspects of the religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilisation are studied, with some emphasis on the geographical and ecological factors which have contributed to that civilisation's special character. The aim is to provide a collection of readab…
The Cambridge History of Iran
The Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and culture, and its contribution to the civilisation of the world. All aspect of the religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilisation are studies, with some emphasis on geographical and ecological factors which have contributed to that civilisation's special character. The aim is to provide a collection of readable es…
Professor Vladimir Minorsky
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New Tablets from the Persepolis Treasury
Dialect Variation in Early Persian
Zoroaster's Own Contribution
The Avestan Hymn to Mithra
The Avestan Hymn to Mithra
Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part in. Pahlavi inscriptions. London: 1 Lund Humphries & Co., Ltd
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Vedisch vratá und awestisch urvā̑ta
Ad ‘Sissoo at Susa’, BSOAS , xix, 2, 1957, 317, 1.5
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Sissoo at Susa
One of the few Old Persian words whose precise meaning has not yet been established is yakā-, the name of a material which was used in the building of Darius' palace at Susa. In the Great King's own words 'it was brought (to Susa) from Gandara and Karmāna'.1 That a timber was meant appears from the Akkadian version (the corresponding Elamite sentence is missing), in which yakā- is translated by GIšMlŠ-MA-KAN-NA. Admittedly the Akkadian word is pa…
Word And Spirit In Ossetic
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A Parthian Title in the Hymn of the Soul
The recognition that the setting of the story related in the Syriac Hymn of the Soul is Iranian is primarily based on the statement in the poem that its chief character, the Prince who “from the far Hyrcanian mountains” was sent down to Egypt to fetch the unique Pearl, was the son of the king of Parthia. Less obvious Iranian reminiscences are also to be found in the Hymn, some of which have lately been discussed by G. Widengren in Zeitschrift für…
The Alloglottography of Old Persian
A Parthian Title in the Hymn of the Soul
The recognition that the setting of the story related in the Syriac Hymn of the Soul is Iranian is primarily based on the statement in the poem that its chief character, the Prince who “from the far Hyrcanian mountains” was sent down to Egypt to fetch the unique Pearl, was the son of the king of Parthia. Less obvious Iranian reminiscences are also to be found in the Hymn, some of which have lately been discussed by G. Widengren in Zeitschrift für…
Sissoo at Susa
One of the few Old Persian words whose precise meaning has not yet been established is yakā-, the name of a material which was used in the building of Darius' palace at Susa. In the Great King's own words 'it was brought (to Susa) from Gandara and Karmāna'.1 That a timber was meant appears from the Akkadian version (the corresponding Elamite sentence is missing), in which yakā- is translated by GIšMlŠ-MA-KAN-NA. Admittedly the Akkadian word is pa…
Island-Bay and the lion
The onomasticon of the Elamite Fortification tablets from Persepolis, so generously placed at the disposal of Professor Benveniste and myself by Professor Hallock, keeps yielding precious pearls. Benveniste published in 1966 those which he had recognized. In the following year I sent to the printer a list of additional identifications, giving notice of more to follow. The present tribute to one of the giants of Iranian studies, whose massive work…
New Tablets from the Persepolis Treasury
Zoroaster's Own Contribution
Word And Spirit In Ossetic
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On the Sogdian St. George Passion
The Sogdian fragment of the Acts of St. George, published by O. Hansen in APAW. , 1941, contains a number of words and passages mistranslated or left untranslated by the editor, which can be understood through careful examination of the text and its parallel versions. I have to thank Dr. Henning for lending me his reprint of Hansen's paper and allowing me to include in what follows his marginal notes on restoration and translation of numerous pas…
On the Sogdian Vessantara Jātaka
The publication by Benveniste of the facsimiles of all Sogdian manuscripts preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale ( Monumenta Linguarum Asiae Maioris , vol. iii, Codices Sogdiani , Copenhagen, 1940) enables us to check the correctness of Gauthiot's reading of the Vessantara Jātaka (published in JA. , 1912, 163–193, 430–510). Since most people interested in Sogdian are more likely at first to try to read the texts so far unpublished than to compa…
On the Sogdian St. George Passion
The Sogdian fragment of the Acts of St. George, published by O. Hansen in APAW. , 1941, contains a number of words and passages mistranslated or left untranslated by the editor, which can be understood through careful examination of the text and its parallel versions. I have to thank Dr. Henning for lending me his reprint of Hansen's paper and allowing me to include in what follows his marginal notes on restoration and translation of numerous pas…
Ancient Survivals in Ossetic
When Soslan went to the land of the giant Uomar, son of Tara, he pretended to be his own hireling: Tari furt Uomari zænxæmæ ranæxstæræy ye'xuærsti ræuoni, Pam. ii 60. The Dictionary translates Dig. ræuonæ as 'cause, pretext, appearance', and quotes our passage to illustrate the third meaning: 'in the appearance of his hireling.' There is, however, another passage, in which ræuonæ clearly means 'disguise'. Uaskergi had placed watchmen at the gorge…
A Parthian Title in the Hymn of the Soul
The recognition that the setting of the story related in the Syriac Hymn of the Soul is Iranian is primarily based on the statement in the poem that its chief character, the Prince who “from the far Hyrcanian mountains” was sent down to Egypt to fetch the unique Pearl, was the son of the king of Parthia. Less obvious Iranian reminiscences are also to be found in the Hymn, some of which have lately been discussed by G. Widengren in Zeitschrift für…
A Grammar of Manichean Sogdian
Word And Spirit In Ossetic
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Sissoo at Susa
One of the few Old Persian words whose precise meaning has not yet been established is yakā-, the name of a material which was used in the building of Darius' palace at Susa. In the Great King's own words 'it was brought (to Susa) from Gandara and Karmāna'.1 That a timber was meant appears from the Akkadian version (the corresponding Elamite sentence is missing), in which yakā- is translated by GIšMlŠ-MA-KAN-NA. Admittedly the Akkadian word is pa…
Ad ‘Sissoo at Susa’, BSOAS , xix, 2, 1957, 317, 1.5
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Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part in. Pahlavi inscriptions. London: 1 Lund Humphries & Co., Ltd
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Vedisch vratá und awestisch urvā̑ta
The Avestan Hymn to Mithra
The Avestan Hymn to Mithra
Dialect Variation in Early Persian
Zoroaster's Own Contribution
New Tablets from the Persepolis Treasury
Professor Vladimir Minorsky
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Old Iranian Literature
The Cambridge History of Iran
The Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and culture, and its contribution to the civilisation of the world. All aspects of the religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilisation are studied, with some emphasis on the geographical and ecological factors which have contributed to that civilisation's special character. The aim is to provide a collection of readab…
The Cambridge History of Iran
The Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and culture, and its contribution to the civilisation of the world. All aspect of the religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilisation are studies, with some emphasis on geographical and ecological factors which have contributed to that civilisation's special character. The aim is to provide a collection of readable es…
W. B. Henning memorial volume
The “Sūtra of the causes and effects of actions” in Sogdian
Island-Bay and the lion
The onomasticon of the Elamite Fortification tablets from Persepolis, so generously placed at the disposal of Professor Benveniste and myself by Professor Hallock, keeps yielding precious pearls. Benveniste published in 1966 those which he had recognized. In the following year I sent to the printer a list of additional identifications, giving notice of more to follow. The present tribute to one of the giants of Iranian studies, whose massive work…
The Cambridge History of Iran: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs, Vol. 4
Volume 4 is a survey of every aspect of the civilisations which flourished in the Iranian region from the Arab conquests to the Saljuq expansion: in particular, it studies the gradual transition of Iran from Zoroastrianism to Islam, the uniting of all Iranians under one rule, the flowering into full magnificence of the Persian language, and the establishment of those other acts which were to flourish so brilliantly after the Mongol conquest. The …
The Alloglottography of Old Persian
Bactrian Literature
The study of Bactrian literature, under this name, has only recently emerged from adolescence. There is little text-material, and even it is largely elusive. On much of it no opinion has as yet been expressed that would help to place it within the pan-Iranian context of the present volume. Inevitably, therefore, many views here offered are personal. This is true especially in respect of the main Bactrian text, the Nokonzok inscription, on which t…
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