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General introduction | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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The textual sources | |
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The religious background to Zoroastrianism | |
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Zarathushtra and his teachings | |
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Some reasons for diversity in modern studies of Zoroastrianism | |
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The ancient Iranian world picture | |
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The seven holy days of obligation | |
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The Zoroastrian calendar | |
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The Zoroastrian 'world year' | |
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Chronological background to the texts | |
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Tradition and doctrine | |
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Ancient materials from the Yashts | |
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Verses from the Gathas | |
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Passages from the Zand of lost Avestan texts | |
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Worship, prayer and confession | |
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Selections from Yasna Haptanhaiti | |
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Passages from the yasna liturgy accompanying the preparation of the haoma offering | |
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The four great prayers | |
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The creed (Fravarane) | |
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The kusti prayers | |
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The Hamazor | |
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The benediction, or prayer for health (tan-dorosti) | |
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From a general confession, Patet i Khwad | |
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Rules and observances | |
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The cult of fire | |
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Concerning human 'nasa' and the proper disposal of the dead | |
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On 'taking the baj' | |
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Festivals | |
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The life and legend of Zarathustra | |
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Passages from Younger Avestan texts | |
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Passages from the Zand of lost Avestan texts | |
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Kavi Vishtaspa and the early wars of the faith | |
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The fate of the soul at death, and a vision of heaven and hell | |
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The fate of the soul, from Younger Avestan texts | |
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The fate of the soul, from Pahlavi sources | |
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A vision of heaven and hell, from Arda Viraz Namag | |
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Apocalyptic texts | |
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On the coming of the Saoshyant, from Yasht 19 | |
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On the three World Saviours, from the Zand | |
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On the seven ages of the world, and the coming of the Saviours, from the Zand of Vahman Yasht | |
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On Yima's var, from Vendidad 2 | |
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A Zoroastrian heresy: Zurvanism | |
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A citation from Theopompus | |
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Versions of the myth of Zurvan and his twin Sons | |
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Dogmatic passages from ninth-century Pahlavi books | |
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From 'Selected Precepts of the Ancient Sages' | |
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From Shkand-gumanig Vizar, the 'Doubt-dispelling Exposition' | |
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Historical texts | |
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From the Achaemenian period | |
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From the Parthian period | |
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From the Sasanian period | |
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Passages concerning the Arab conquest and the early centuries of Islam | |
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Concerning the Irani and Parsi communities, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries A. C. | |
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From the reports of Europeans, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries | |
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The faith in modern times: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | |
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From nineteenth-century European writings on Zoroastrian dualism | |
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Passages from Parsi theosophical writings | |
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Writings by moderate and radical reformists | |
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Tradition in belief and practice | |
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Matters of controversy | |
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Restatements and reappraisal | |
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Bibliography | |
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Glossarial index | |