A Relative Chronology of Persian
Korn, Agnes. 2021. Contributions to a relative chronology of Persian: The non-change of postconsonantal y and w in Middle Persian in context. Indo-European Linguistics 1–43. Old Persian shows a change...
View ArticleRamat Raḥel VI: The Babylonian-Persian Pit
Lipschits, Oded, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot. 2021. Ramat Raḥel VI: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). The Babylonian-Persian Pit. Pennsylvania:...
View ArticleSusa. Stratigraphic survey of the Acropolis 1: Layers 21 to 18 (campaigns...
Le Brun, Alain (with a contribution from Naomi F. Miller). 2020. Suse. Sondage stratigraphique de l’Acropole 1: Couches 21 a 18 (campagnes 1977-1979). Paris: De Boccard. Ouvert en 1969 dans le cadre du...
View ArticleStudia Iranica 49 (1)
The first issue of Studia Iranica 49 (2020) is out. For a table of contents and access to individual articles, see below or visit this page. Antonio PANAINO & Franco MARTORELLO: The ‘Amphibology’...
View ArticleThe Herodotus Encyclopedia
Baron, Christopher (Ed.). 2021. The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 3 Volume Set. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. The first work of its kind, this book offers students and faculty of all levels an easy-to-use,...
View ArticleEnd of History and the Last King
Janzen, David. 2021. End of History and the Last King: Achaemenid Ideology and Community Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah. London & New York: Bloomsbury. This book examines community identity in the...
View ArticleExilarchal Propaganda and Zoroastrians in Tenth- to Eleventh-Century Baghdad
Gross, Simcha. 2021. The Curious Case of the Jewish Sasanian Queen Šīšīnduxt: Exilarchal Propaganda and Zoroastrians in Tenth- to Eleventh-Century Baghdad. Journal of the American Oriental Society...
View ArticleThe Arsakid World (Anabasis, 10)
Volume 10 (2019) of Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia is now out. This is a special volume, entitled “The Arsakid World: Studies on the History and Culture of Western and Central Asia” edited by...
View ArticleReligion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran
Lincoln, Bruce. 2021. Religion, culture, and politics in pre-Islamic Iran: collected essays (Ancient Iran Series 14). Leiden; Boston: Brill. In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran,...
View ArticleQuatrefoils of Early China and Their Achaemenid Parallels
Kim, Minku. 2021. The Pinnacle Ornament of Flowers: Quatrefoils of Early China and Their Achaemenid Parallels. In Guolong Lai (ed.), Occult Arts, Art History, and Cultural Exchange in Early China: A...
View ArticleFestschrift for Rüdiger Schmitt
Luther, Andreas, Hilmar Klinkott & Josef Wiesehöfer (eds.). 2021. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur des alten Iran und benachbarter Gebiete Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt (Oriens et Occidens,...
View ArticleZoroastrian High Ritulas together with Persian Instructions
Dastūr Nāmdār, and Dastūr Rostam. Yasna, Visperad, Yašt-e Rapitvan bā ādāb-e dīnī [Yasna, Visperad and Yašt ī Rapiθwin together with Ritual Instructions]. Edited by Kūroš Bolandī. Tehran: Fravahar,...
View ArticleOn Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin
Overton, Keelan & Kimia Maleki. 2020. The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: A present history of a living shrine, 2018-20. Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 1(1–2). 120–149. The Emamzadeh...
View ArticleThe Roar of Silence
Benkato, Adam & Arash Zeini (eds.). 2021. The roar of silence: Festschrift for François de Blois. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31(3). The breadth and variety of François de Blois’s...
View ArticleAchaemenid Royal Road in Anatolia
Sadeghipour, Mahnaz & and Farshid Iravani Ghadimi. 2020. An Archaeological Approach to Delineate the Course of the Achaemenid Royal Road in Anatolia. Anatolica 46, 67-101. The Achaemenid Royal Road...
View ArticleThe City of Babylon
Dalley, Stephanie. 2021. The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a...
View ArticleJournal of Ancient Near Eastern History (vol. 8)
Volume 8 of Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History (2021) is just published. This is a special issue entitled “Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context.” It consists...
View ArticleConstructions of Gender
Towers, Susanna. 2019. Constructions of gender in late antique Manichaean cosmological narrative (Studia Traditionis Theologiae 34). Manichaeism emerged from Sasanian Persia in the third century CE and...
View ArticleChristian and Zoroastrian Doctrine of Apokatastasis
Panaino, Antonio. 2021. The “River of Fire” and the “River of Molten Metal”. A historico-theological rafting through the rapids of the Christian and Mazdean apokatastatic falls. Vol. 86. Wien: Verlag...
View ArticleA Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Jacobs, Bruno & Robert Rollinger (eds.). 2021. A companion to the Achaemenid Persian empire. 2 vols. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. The Achaemenid Empire is often addressed as the first World...
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