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130 0 $aBundahishn.$lEnglish.
245 14 $aThe bundahišn :$bthe Zoroastrian Book of Creation /$cedited and translated by Domenico Agostini and Samuel Thrope.
264 1 $aNew York, NY:$bOxford University Press,$c[2020]
300 $a1 online resource (xxxi, 229 pages) :$billustrations
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"The Bundahišn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology, and one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature and pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Touching on geography, cosmogony, anthropology, zoology, astronomy, medicine, legend, and myth, the Bundahišn can be considered a concise compendium of Zoroastrian knowledge. The Bundahišn is well known in the field as an essential primary source for the study of ancient Iranian history, religions, literature, and languages. It is one of the most important texts composed in Zoroastrian Middle Persian, also known as Zoroastrian Book Pahlavi, in the centuries after the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the invading Arab and Islamic forces in the mid seventh century. The Bundahišn provides scholars with a particularly profitable window on Zoroastrianism's intellectual and religious history at a crucial transitional moment: centuries after the composition of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred scriptures, and before the transformation of Zoroastrianism into a minority religion within Iran and adherents' dispersion throughout Central and South Asia. However, the Bundahišn is not only a scholarly tract. It is also a great work of literature in its own right, and ranks alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions: Genesis, the Babylonian Emunah Elish, Hesiod's Theogony, and others. Informed by the latest research in Iranian Studies, this translation aims to bring to the fore the aesthetic quality, literary style, and complexity of this important work.""--$cProvided by publisher.
546 $aTranslated from the Pahlavi language (Middle Persian) into English.
588 $aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2020).
630 00 $aBundahishn.
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650 0 $aPahlavi language$vTexts$vTranslations into English.
650 0 $aZoroastrianism$vEarly works to 1800.
650 7 $aPahlavi language.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01050368
650 7 $aZoroastrianism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01184829
655 4 $aElectronic books.
655 7 $aEarly works.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411636
700 1 $aAgostini, Domenico,$eeditor, translator.
700 1 $aThrope, Samuel,$d1980-$eeditor, translator.
776 08 $iPrint version:$aBundahishn. English.$tBundahišn.$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2020$z9780190879075$w(DLC) 2019040657
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