Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period / La religion perse à l’époque achéménide
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Harrassowitz, O |
| ISBN-13 | 9783447195560 |
| Total publications | 8 |
| Coverage period | 2017 - 2017 |
| Language | FR |
| Impact factor | 1.25 |
Including twelve English, French, and German papers originally presented at a colloquium convened by Jean Kellens at the Collège de France (2013), this volume addresses a range of issues relating to Persian religion at the time of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE). Moving away from the reductive question whether the Achaemenid kings were Zoroastrians or not, the contributors have tried to focus either on newly identified or recently published sources (Central Asian archaeological finds, Elamite texts and seal impressions from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, Aramaic texts from Bactria, the Persepolis Bronze Plaque), or on current (and ongoing) debates such as the question of the spread of the so-called long liturgy to western Iran. In doing, different perspectives are chosen: whereas some have stressed the Iranian or Indo-Iranian tradition, others have pointed out the importance of the Elamite and Assyro-Babylonian contexts. At the same time, the volume shows a broad agreement in its insistence on the essential position of primary sources, problematic as they may be, and on the important role the Achaemenid rulers and the imperial project played in the evolution of Iranian religion
Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period / La religion perse à l’époque achéménide
Including twelve English, French, and German papers originally presented at a colloquium convened by Jean Kellens at the Collège de France (2013), this volume addresses a range of issues relating to Persian religion at the time of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE). Moving away from the reductive question whether the Achaemenid kings were Zoroastrians or not, the contributors have tried to focus either on newly identified or recently published s…
Achaemenid “ritual architecture” vs. “religious architecture”
Liturgies and Calendars in the Politico-Religious History of Pre-Achaemenian and Achaemenian Iran
The present contribution focuses on some aspects of the history of the Avestan calendar in the light of the intricate process of acquisition of a foreign pattern such as the Egyptian one (with 365 days in 12 months of 30 days each plus 5 epagomena). If the original model followed by the earlier calendrical system is not clear and many hypotheses have been proposed, the new calendar surely was adapted through a Western intermediation, a fact in it…
Beyond Auramazdā and the Winged Symbol
Religious aspects in the Aramaic texts from Bactria
Discussion on the information on Achaemenid religion that can be found in a group of 4th-century Aramaic texts from Bactria (modern Afghanistan)
La liturgie longue en langue avestique dans l’Iran occidental
Humban & Auramazdā
Sanctuaires sogdiens et cultes avestiques de l’époque de Gava à l’époque hellénistique
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Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period / La religion perse à l’époque achéménide
Including twelve English, French, and German papers originally presented at a colloquium convened by Jean Kellens at the Collège de France (2013), this volume addresses a range of issues relating to Persian religion at the time of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE). Moving away from the reductive question whether the Achaemenid kings were Zoroastrians or not, the contributors have tried to focus either on newly identified or recently published s…
Achaemenid “ritual architecture” vs. “religious architecture”
Liturgies and Calendars in the Politico-Religious History of Pre-Achaemenian and Achaemenian Iran
The present contribution focuses on some aspects of the history of the Avestan calendar in the light of the intricate process of acquisition of a foreign pattern such as the Egyptian one (with 365 days in 12 months of 30 days each plus 5 epagomena). If the original model followed by the earlier calendrical system is not clear and many hypotheses have been proposed, the new calendar surely was adapted through a Western intermediation, a fact in it…
Beyond Auramazdā and the Winged Symbol
Religious aspects in the Aramaic texts from Bactria
Discussion on the information on Achaemenid religion that can be found in a group of 4th-century Aramaic texts from Bactria (modern Afghanistan)
La liturgie longue en langue avestique dans l’Iran occidental
Humban & Auramazdā
Sanctuaires sogdiens et cultes avestiques de l’époque de Gava à l’époque hellénistique