The Edict of Cyrus and Notions of Restoration in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles
Gilhooley, Andrew M. 2020. The edict of Cyrus and notions of restoration in Ezra-Nehemiah and chronicles. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. The Edict of Cyrus, both opening Ezra-Nehemiah (Ezra 1:1-4)...
View ArticleEgyptian objects from the Achaemenid period in Iran
Qahéri, Sépideh. 2020. Objets égyptiens et égyptianisants d’époque achéménide conservés en Iran (Persika, 20). Leuven: Peeters. Par son rayonnement politico-économique, l’Égypte saïte constitue le plus...
View ArticleImperial Celebrations of 1971
Steele, Robert. 2020. The Shah’s imperial celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, culture and politics in late Pahlavi Iran. London: I.B. Tauris. In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a...
View ArticleThe Zoroastrian Vision, Straight in the Eyes
Azarnouche, Samra & Olivia Ramble. 2020. La Vision zoroastrienne, les yeux dans les yeux Commentaire sur la Dēn selon Dēnkard III.225. Revue de l’his toire des reli gions 237(3). 331–395. In the...
View ArticleThe Sin of the Woman
Sadeghi, Fatemeh. 2020. The Sin of the Woman: Interrelations of Religious Judgments in Zoroastrianism and Islam (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 336). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since the 1920s, the...
View ArticleThe Sogdians
The exhibition, The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads, explores Sogdian art through existing material culture. It focuses on the golden age of the Sogdians, from the fourth to the eighth...
View ArticleDer Islam 97 (2)
Among other interesting papers published in the latest issue of Der Islam, 97 (2), two contributions fall in the scope of Iranian Studies: Sebastian Bitsch: Sengende Hitze, Eiseskälte oder Mond? Zum...
View ArticleRepetition of Preverbs in the Avesta
Forssman, Bernhard. 2020. Wiederholung von Präverbien im Avesta. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 170(2). 361–370. The paper discusses the strange repetition of preverbs, well...
View ArticleAssyriology in Iran?
Daneshmand, Parsa. 2020. Assyriology in Iran? In Agnès Garcia-Ventura & Lorenzo Verderame (eds.), Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 266–282. Winona Lake, Ind:...
View ArticleZoroastrian Laws of Ritual Purity
Moazami, Mahnaz. 2020. Laws of Ritual Purity. Zand ī Fragard ī Jud-Dēw-Dād (A Commentary on the Chapters of the Widēwdād) (Iran Studies 19). Leiden: Brill. Laws of Ritual Purity: Zand ī Fragard ī...
View ArticleMithradates II
Sinisi, Fabrizio, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Magub Alexandra, Pendleton Elisabeth Joy & Hopkins Edward C. D. Mithradates II. Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum Vologases I. – Pacorus II. (Denkschriften Der...
View ArticleHuman History, Its Aims and Its End, according to the Zoroastrian Doctrine of...
Panaino, Antonio. 2020. Human History, Its Aims and Its End, according to the Zoroastrian Doctrine of Late Antiquity. In Tilo Schabert & John von Heyking (eds.), Wherefrom Does History Emerge?,...
View ArticleThe Bīsotūn Inscription – A Jeopardy of Achaemenid History
Ahmadi, Amir. 2020. The Bīsotūn Inscription – A Jeopardy of Achaemenid History. The Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History 27. 3–56. According to the currently favoured view among historians of the...
View ArticleA History of Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire
Brosius, Maria. 2020. A History of Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. A History of the Achaemenid Empire considers archaeological and written sources to provide an...
View ArticleUdjahorresnet and His World
The latest issue of Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (vol. 26) is dedicated to the research about the famous Egyptian physician: Udjahorresnet. This volume, edited by Melanie Wasmuth and...
View ArticleMasters of the Steppe
Pankova, Svetlana & St John Simpson (eds.). 2020. Masters of the steppe: The impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia. Oxford: Archeopress. This book consists of 45 papers...
View ArticlePoets, Heroes, and their Dragons: Armenian And Iranian Studies
Russell, James R. 2020. Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons: Armenian And Iranian Studies (Ancient Iran Series 13, 1-2). 2 vols. Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California,...
View ArticlePerfects in Indo-European Languages
Robert Crellin & Jügel, Thomas (eds.). 2020. Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 352). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing...
View ArticleSlings and slingers in ancient Iran
Potts, Daniel. 2020. Slings and slingers in ancient Iran. In Stephan Blum, Turan Efe, Tobias Kienlin & Ernst Pernicka (eds.), From past to present. Studies in memory of Manfred O. Korfmann (Studia...
View ArticleThe World of the Oxus Civilization
Lyonnet, Bertille & Nadezhda A Dubova (eds.). 2021. The World of the Oxus Civilization. London & New York: Routledge. This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the...
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