The Bundahisn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation

ISBN-13: 9780190879044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str.

Domenico Agostini; Samuel Thrope; Shaul Shaked

Recenzje

Agostini and Thrope have produced an excellent translation together with introductory matter and notes that make the Bundahi%sn readily accessible to not only Iranists, but also to Indo-Europeanists and students of religion in general.

O autorze

Domenico Agostini is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Tel Aviv University. He has been the recipient of the Prix Pirasteh in Persian Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris (2008) and the Polonsky fellowship for Outstanding postdoctoral researchers (2013-2017). He has published extensively in the field of the Zoroastrian apocalyptic ideas and Middle Persian literature. Samuel Thrope is a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a fellow of the Martin Buber Society at Hebrew University. His translation of Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad's The Israeli Republic was published in 2017, and he is co-editor, with Roberta Cassagrande-Kim and Raquel Ukeles, of the 2018 exhibition catalogue Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past.