Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period / La Religion Perse A L'Epoque Achemenide
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3447106476 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-10 |
| Language | : | English, French, German |
DESCRIPTION:
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. Including twelve English, French, and German papers originally presented at a colloquium convened by Jean Kellens at the College de France (2013), this volume addresses a range of issues relating to Persian religion at the time of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE). 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.. 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 sour