A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book
Sims-Williams, Nicholas, John S. Sheldon & Zsuzsanna Gulácsi. 2022. A Manichaean prayer and confession book. (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum: Series Iranica 1). Turnhout: Brepols. The Manichaean...
View ArticleEmbedded Inscriptions in Herodotus and Thucydides
Allgaier, Benjamin. 2022. Embedded Inscriptions in Herodotus and Thucydides (Philippika, 157). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. The two founding works of the Western historiographical tradition, Herodotus’...
View ArticleDictionary of Manichaean Texts
Sims-Williams, Nicholas & Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst. 2022. Dictionary of Manichaean texts (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum: Subsidia 7). Volume III, 2: Texts from Central Asia and China (Texts in...
View ArticleThe Manichaean Coptic Papyri
Richter, Siegfried (ed.). 2022. The Manichaean Coptic papyri in the Chester Beatty library: Psalm Book Part I, 1 (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum: Series Coptica 3). Turnhout: Brepols. Das manichäische...
View ArticleManichaean Studies
10th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies Tenth Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies to be held at Aarhus University (Denmark),...
View ArticleKing of the World
Waters, Matt. 2022. King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Persian Empire was the world’s first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to...
View ArticleLycia and Persia in the Xanthos stele
Hyland, John. 2021. Between Amorges and Tissaphernes: Lycia and Persia in the Xanthos stele. In Annick Payne, Šárka Velhartická & Jorit Wintjes (eds.), Beyond all boundaries: Anatolia in the first...
View ArticlePersians: The Age of the Great Kings
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2022. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. New York: Basic Books. The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes...
View ArticleThe Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing
Desset, François, Kambiz Tabibzadeh, Matthieu Kervran, Gian Pietro Basello & Gianni Marchesi. 2022. The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische...
View ArticleTowards a Morphosyntax of Old Persian Cases
Benvenuto, Maria Carmela & Flavia Pompeo. 2020. Towards a Morphosyntax of Old Persian Cases : The Genitive (Indogermanische Textlinguistik, Poetik und Stilistik 3). Hamburg: Baar-Verlag. To date,...
View ArticleCamels and their rations in the Persepolis Fortification Archive
Potts, Daniel T. 2021. Camels and their rations in the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An enigma and its variations. Egitto e Vicino Oriente 44, 231-247. The feeding habits of camels entail...
View ArticleFestschrift for Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi
Shayeste Doust, Amin (ed.). 2022. Dādestān ī Dēnīg. Festschrift for Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi. Teheran: Farhang Moaser. Table of Contents: Miguel Angel Andrés-Toledo: “Fighting Evil: The Lists of Demons...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of Empire
Barmash, Pamela & Mark W. Hamilton (eds.). 2021. In the shadow of empire: Israel and Judah in the long sixth century BCE. Atlanta: SBL Press. The essays in this volume revisit issues of exile and...
View ArticleThe Multimedia Yasna
The interactive film of the Performance of the High Zoroastrian Ceremony of Yasna Open Access to the full film of the performance of the most solemn Zoroastrian ceremony the standard Yasna with the...
View ArticleAbout Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period
Hensel, Benedikt, Ehud Ben Zvi & Diana V. Edelman (eds.). 2022. About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near...
View ArticleThe Hunt for Ancient Israel
Shafer-Elliott, Cynthia, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi & Pauline A. Viviano (eds.). 2022. The Hunt for Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of Diana V. Edelman. Sheffield: Equinox. The Hunt for...
View ArticleThe Idea of Marathon
Nevin, Sonya. 2022. The Idea of Marathon: Battle and Culture. London: Bloomsbury. The Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been...
View ArticleWomen in Western and Eastern Manichaeism
Scopello, Madeleine. 2022. Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 101). Leiden: Brill. The exceptional place women held in Manichaeism, in everyday life or myth,...
View ArticleJournal of Iran National Museum
The second volume (2021) of Journal of Iran National Museum is published. Whereas the previous volume was published in Persian, its current issue contains paper in English. This is an open-access...
View ArticleMaking Peace in the Ancient World
Lanfranchi, Giovanni B., Simonetta Ponchia and Robert Rollinger (eds.). 2022. Making Peace in the Ancient World: Proceedings of the 7th Melammu Workshop, Padova, 5–7 November 2018 (Melammu Workshops...
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