DABIR – Vol. 1, Issue 2
The latest issue of DABIR has been published and is available here: Issue 02 – Dabir Journal. The Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) is an open access, peer-reviewed online...
View ArticleRepetitions or Omissions? Different Versions of Widēwdād 22
Ferrer-Losilla, Juanjo. 2015. “Repetitions or Omissions? Different Versions of Widēwdād 22“, Studia Iranica 44 (2), 207-225. The present paper analyses two versions that appear in the 22nd chapter...
View ArticleAchaemenids and Greeks
Dahlén, Ashk (ed.). 2016. Antikens Persien. Umeå: H:ström Text & Kultur. The Achaemenian Empire was the first of the Persian Empires to become an important political and economic power in the...
View ArticleVermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought
Lincoln, Bruce. 2015. “Toward a More Materialistic Ethics: Vermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought,” Studia Iranica 44(1), 83-98. Absent from the Older Avesta, vermin and poison first appear in a...
View ArticleConference Program | societyforiranianstudies.org
The eleventh biennal conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies will take place in Vienna from 2 to 5 August 2016. For more information on the conference, see this link. And here is...
View ArticleThe Star of Bethlehem and the Magi
Barthel, Peter & George van Kooten (eds.). 2015. The star of Bethlehem and the Magi. Interdisciplinary perspectives from experts on the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, and modern...
View ArticleParthian kingship
Edward Dąbrowa, “Kingship ii. Parthian Period,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2016, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kingship-02-parthian-period (accessed on 25 July 2016)....
View ArticleThe making of Turan
Payne, Richard. 2016. The making of Turan: The fall and transformation of the Iranian east in late antiquity. Journal of Late Antiquity 9(1). 4–41. Contemporaneously with the fall and transformation of...
View ArticleImages of Daēnā and Mithra on Two Seals
Shenkar, Michael. 2015. “Images of Daēnā and Mithra on Two Seals from the Indo-Iranian Borderlands“, Studia Iranica 44(1), 99-117. The article discusses two seals from the recently published collection...
View ArticlePriscian: Answers to King Khosroes of Persia
Huby, Pamela & Ebbesen, Sten & Langslow, David & Russell, Donald & Steel, Carlos & Malcolm Wilson. 2016. Priscian: Answers to King Khosroes of Persia (Ancient Commentators on...
View ArticleItineraries on the edges of Iran
Pellò, Stefano (ed.). 2016. Borders: Itineraries on the edges of Iran (Eurasiatica 5). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. This collection of essays, which is presented here as the fifth issue of a recently reborn...
View ArticleWomen in the Ancient Near East
Stol, Marten. 2016. Women in the Ancient Near East. De Gruyter. Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the...
View ArticleThe Christian Sogdian Gospel Lectionary
Barbati, Chiara. 2016. The Christian Sogdian Gospel Lectionary E5 in Context (Veröffentlichungen Zur Iranistik 81). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. On the basis of a...
View ArticleReligion in the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Edelman, Diana, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley & Philippe Guillaume (eds.). 2016. Religion in the Achaemenid Persian Empire (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 17). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen. The...
View ArticleSamarkand: The Center of the World
Compareti, Matteo. 2016. Samarkand: The center of the world. Proposals for the identification of the Afrasyab paintings (Sasanika Series 5). Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. In antiquity...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Central Stone Slab in the Tripylon Gate of Persepolis
Razmjou, Shahrokh. 2015-2016. “The Mystery of the Central Stone Slab in the Tripylon Gate of Persepolis”, Journal of Archaeological Studies 7(2), 69-83. It has been proposed that some structures at...
View ArticleGreek Views of India and the Parthian Empire
Wiesehöfer, Josef, Horst Brinkhaus & Reinhold Bichler. 2016. Megasthenes und seine Zeit. Akten der Internationalen Tagung „Megasthenes, Apollodoros and Isidoros. Greek Views of India and the...
View ArticleHistory of Sogdian Merchants
de la Vaissière, Etienne. 2016. Histoire des marchands sogdiens. Troisième édition révisée. (Institut des hautes études chinoises (Collège de France) 32). The Sogdian Traders were the main go-between...
View ArticleSilver, Money and Credit
Kleber, Kristin & Reinhard Pirngruber (eds.). 2016. Silver, Money and Credit. A Tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday on 18th September 2014. Leiden: Nederlands...
View ArticlePahlavi and Judeo-Persian Bible Manuscripts
Pehlivanian, Meliné, Christoph Rauch & Ronny Vollandt (eds.). 2016. Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK. Eine illustrierte Geschichte. Wiesbaden: Reichert...
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