Avestan studies in Imperial Germany: Sciences of text and sound
This article sheds new light on late-19 th -century debates about the organization of knowledge through its emphasis on German orientalism and comparative linguistics. Centering on …
This article sheds new light on late-19 th -century debates about the organization of knowledge through its emphasis on German orientalism and comparative linguistics. Centering on …
… of the 1980s to encode the Avestan scriptures exactly as they are … Avestan script and its transcription 1.1 Early western approaches to the Avestan script and its transcription The Avestan …
Zaraθuštra, 1 is twice attested in the Gāthās. In Y. 46 the singer addresses several characters of the Gāthic world by name, beginning with Zaraθuštra himself and continuing in stanza …
… Before we discuss the etymology of this word, let us first turn to the meaning of Avestan vii xana -. Kuiper (1960: 247ff.) has demonstrated (developing the ideas of Benveniste in …
… Since the grand plan presently dominating Avestan philology is the joint production of a new… , digitize and publish the extant Avestan manuscripts on the Avestan Digital Archive (http://…
Whenever one is confronted with the study of the compositional structure of the Avestan Vīdēvdād, one is surprised by the continuous presence of unexpected fragments within the main …
IlyaIlya Gershevitch.—The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, with an Intro duction and Gommentary, Cambridge, at the University Press, 1959 (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications n 4), …
… Avestan manuscripts Pt4 and Mf4, in which the history of the manuscripts is recounted. This leads us to interpret the preface differently from our predecessors: the reunion of the Avestan …