The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani
Iain Gardner, Jason D. Beduhn & Paul Dilley. 2018. The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord ManiPart III: Pages 343-442 (Chapters 321-347). ( Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Volume: 92). Leiden:...
View ArticleAramaic Magic Bowls
Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene & Ortal-Paz Saar. 2018. Aramaic magic bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. Descriptive list and edition of selected texts (Magical and...
View ArticleThe Mandaean religion and the Aramaic background of Manichaeism
Ionuţ Daniel Băncilă. 2018. Die mandäische Religion und der aramäische Hintergrund des Manichäismus: Forschungsgeschichte, Textvergleiche, historisch-geographische Verortung. (Mandäistische Forschungen...
View ArticleA Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts
Péri, Benedek. 2018. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Islamic Manuscripts and Books 16). Leiden: Brill. The Library of the Hungarian Academy of...
View ArticleA (New) Old Iranian Etymology for Biblical Aramaic אֲדַרְגָּזַר
Noonan, Benjamin J. 2018. A (New) Old Iranian Etymology for Biblical Aramaic אֲדַרְגָּזַר. Aramaic Studies 16(1): 10 – 19. Despite the many advances that have taken place in our understanding of the...
View ArticleIran and America: A forgotten friendship
Potts, Daniel Thomas. 2018. Iran and America: A forgotten friendship. The Conversation. As President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Iran heats up again, it is worth recalling a time when the two...
View ArticleANABASIS. STUDIA CLASSICA ET ORIENTALIA Volume 8 (2017)
Volume eight of “Anabasis“, edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht is out now. Several papers and reviews of this issue are related to ancient Iran: ARTICLES Michał Podrazik: The skēptouchoi of Cyrus the...
View ArticleDesigns on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2018. Designs on the past: How Hollywood created the ancient world. Edinburgh University Press. In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a...
View ArticleRobert Adam Pollak’s versified translation of Šāhnāme
Firdausi, Abu’l-Qasem. 2018. Schahname. Das Buch der Könige. 4 vols. (Ed.) Nosratollah Rastegar. (Trans.) Robert Adam Pollak. With an instroduction by Florian Schwarz. 4 vols. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz...
View ArticleAristotle and Avicenna on the habitability of the Southern Hemisphere
de Blois, François. 2018. Aristotle and Avicenna on the habitability of the Southern Hemisphere. In Sabine Schmidtke (ed.), Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study,...
View ArticleWar and peace in the Iranian world
Jullien, Florence (ed.). 2018. Guerre et paix dans le monde iranien: revisiter les lieux de rencontre (Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 62). Peeters. Ce volume est le fruit du programme de recherche «Guerre...
View ArticleFrom Ancient Near East to Early Islamic History
Schmidtke, Sabine. 2018. Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018 (Gorgias Handbooks). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. The history of Near and Middle...
View ArticleThe Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World
Herman, Geoffrey & Jeffrey L. Rubenstein (eds.). 2018. The Aggada of the Bavli and its cultural world (Brown Judaic Studies 362). Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies. Essays that explore the...
View ArticleSpiritual Elite Communities: Mandaeans, Yezidis, Ahl-e Haqq, Druze and Alawis
Jong, Albert de. 2018. Spiritual Elite Communities in the Contemporary Middle East. Sociology of Islam 6(2). 116–140. This article claims that we are in need of alternative ways of modelling religious...
View ArticleA Unified Gospel with Exegetical Comments in Classical Persian
Hassanabadi, Mahmoud, Carina Jahani & Robert Crellin (eds.). 2018. A Unified Gospel in Persian: An old variant of the Gospels along with exegetical comments by Yahyā Ibn Ayvaz-e Tabrīzī-ye Armanī...
View ArticleAchaemenid Grants of Cities and Lands to Greeks
Kholod, Maxim. 2018. Achaemenid Grants of Cities and Lands to Greeks: The Case of Mentor and Memnon of Rhodes. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58, 177-197. The first grant probably consisted of...
View ArticlePlutarch and the Persica
Almagor, Eran. 2018. Plutarch and the Persica. Edinburgh University Press. This book addresses two historical mysteries. The first is the content and character of the fourth century BCE Greek works on...
View ArticleDating the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes
Gertoux, Gérard. 2018. Dating the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes. In Pascal Attinger et al, (eds.), Text and Image Proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern,...
View ArticleAfghanistan: A new journal
Afghanistan is a refereed journal published twice a year in April and October. It covers all subjects in the humanities including history, art, archaeology, architecture, geography, numismatics,...
View ArticleZoroastrian Mythology: Cows and Bulls in Ancient Iran
Pirart, Eric. 2018. Mythologie zoroastrienne: vaches et taureaux en Iran. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan. Éric Pirart rassemble ici les données de l’eschatologie générale mazdéenne. La rigueur...
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