Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period / La religion perse a l’epoque achemenide
edited by Wouter F. M. Henkelman and Celine Redard
Including twelve English, French, and German papers originally presented at a colloquium convened by Jean Kellens at the College de France (2013), this volume addresses a range of issues relating to Persian religion at the time of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE). Moving away from the reductive question whether the Achaemenid kings were Zoroastrians or not, the contributors have tried to focus either on newly identified or recently published sources (Central Asian archaeological finds, Elamite texts and seal impressions from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, Aramaic texts from Bactria, the Persepolis Bronze Plaque), or on current (and ongoing) debates such as the question of the spread of the so-called long liturgy to western Iran. In doing, different perspectives are chosen: whereas some have stressed the Iranian or Indo-Iranian tradition, others have pointed out the importance of the Elamite and Assyro-Babylonian contexts. At the same time, the volume shows a broad agreement in its insistence on the essential position of primary sources, problematic as they may be, and on the important role the Achaemenid rulers and the imperial project played in the evolution of Iranian religion.
- Edited by Wouter F M Henkelman
- Edited by Celine Redard
Other Titles in this Series
Der Achamenidenhof / The Achaemenid Court
Akten des 2. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema 'Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassischer und altorientalischer Uberlieferungen', Landgut Castelen bei Basel, 23.-25. Mai 2007
Volume 2
Iran and its Histories. From the Beginnings through the Achaemenid Empire
Proceedings of the First and Second Payravi Lectures on Ancient Iranian History, UC Irvine, March 23rd, 2018, & March 11th-12th, 2019
Volume 29
Assessing Biblical and Classical Sources for the Reconstruction of Persian Influence, History and Culture
Volume 10
Stereotypisierung – Idealisierung – Indifferenz
Formen der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Achaimeniden-Reich in der griechischen Persika-Literatur
Volume 4
Ancient Information on Persia Re-assessed
Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Marburg in Honour of Christopher Tuplin, December 1-2, 2017
Volume 22
Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History
the Seleucids (ca. 312-150 BCE)
Volume 31
Die Sicht auf die Welt zwischen Ost und West (750 v. Chr.-550 n. Chr.) / Looking at the World, from the East and the West (750 BCE-550 CE)
Volume 12
The World of Berossos
Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on 'The Ancient Near East between Classical and Ancient Oriental Traditions', Hatfield College, Durham 7th-9th July 2010
Volume 5
Parthika. Greek and Roman Authors’ Views of the Arsacid Empire / Griechisch-romische Bilder des Arsakidenreiches
Volume 15
Alexander und die grossen Strome
Die Flussuberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (Schwimmschlauche, Keleks und Pontonbrucken)
Volume 7
The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan
Rule and Resistance in the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE-600 CE
Volume 24
Mountain Peoples in the Ancient Near East
The Case of the Zagros in the First Millennium BCE
Volume 18
Semiramis, de qua innumerabilia narrantur
Rezeption und Verargumentierung der Konigin von Babylon von der Antike bis in die opera seria des Barock
Volume 25
Die Verwaltung im Achamenidenreich / Administration in the Achaemenid Empire
Imperiale Muster und Strukturen / Tracing the Imperial Signature: Akten des 6. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassischer und altorientalischer Uberlieferungen aus Anlass der 80-Jahr-Feier der Entdeckung des Fest
Volume 17
Der ‘reiche Orient’
Imagination und Faszination: Darstellungen des asiatischen Wohlstandes in griechischen Quellen des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.
Volume 28
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