Banners, spears, black raiders and byzantines: Some textual notes on late sasanian and post-sasanian zoroastrian apocalyptic texts

Dan D.Y. Shapira

doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341248

Banners, spears, black raiders and byzantines: Some textual notes on late sasanian and post-sasanian zoroastrian apocalyptic texts

Dan D.Y. Shapira

Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

This article is a philological study of literary motifs in the Middle Persian apocalyptic work of uncertain date, Zand ? Wahman Yašt. The author claims that the motifs under his consideration in the text of ZWY (=Zand ? Wahman ? Yašt) go back to Middle Persian version of several Avestan Yašts, especially, to the Middle Persian translation of the second part of Yašt 1 (known as Wahman Yašt), Yašt 11, and Yašt 8

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-63
Number of pages	25
Journal	Journal of Persianate Studies
Volume	6
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341248
State	Published - Jan 2013

Keywords

Avestan
Iranian Apocalyptics
Middle Persian
Pahlavi

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Cultural Studies
History
Sociology and Political Science

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Banners, spears, black raiders and byzantines: Some textual notes on late sasanian and post-sasanian zoroastrian apocalyptic texts

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