A Thousand Judgements

Festschrift for Maria Macuch

edited by Almut Hintze, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst and Claudius Naumann

Book cover: A Thousand Judgements

Extent: 394 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Language & Linguistics

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2019)

ISBN: 9783447110945

Price: $136.00

In stock

This volume in honour of Maria Macuch brings together twenty-six articles by friends and colleagues to celebrate the academic work of the foremost living expert of Sasanian law. The subjects covered here include Iranian linguistics and philology, Judeo-Persian, Zoroastrian law and religion, Manichaeism, and the Babylonian Talmud. They reflect the breadth of the work of Maria Macuch. The volume includes studies of important Iranian legal, grammatical and religious terms and titles, of the intercultural engagement between Zoroastrians, Manichaeans and Jews, and editions and studies of texts and text fragments in Pahlavi, Sogdian, Khotanese and Judeo-Persian languages. The book will be of special interest to legal, cultural and religious historians as well as to philologists and linguists.


This volume in honour of Maria Macuch brings together twenty-six articles by friends and colleagues to celebrate the academic work of the foremost living expert of Sasanian law. The subjects covered here include Iranian linguistics and philology, Judeo-Persian, Zoroastrian law and religion, Manichaeism, and the Babylonian Talmud. They reflect the breadth of the work of Maria Macuch. The volume includes studies of important Iranian legal, grammatical and religious terms and titles, of the intercultural engagement between Zoroastrians, Manichaeans and Jews, and editions and studies of texts and text fragments in Pahlavi, Sogdian, Khotanese and Judeo-Persian languages. The book will be of special interest to legal, cultural and religious historians as well as to philologists and linguists. Dieser Band zu Ehren von Maria Macuch vereinigt sechsundzwanzig Aufsatze von Freunden und Kollegen, um das akademische Werk der fuhrenden Expertin des sasanidischen Reichs zu wurdigen. Die Forschungsgebiete umfassen iranische Sprachwissenschaft und Philologie, Judaeo-Persisch, Zoroastrisches Recht und Zoroastrische Religion, Manichaeismus und den Babylonischen Talmud. Der Band beinhaltet Studien wichtiger iranischer Rechtstermini sowie grammatischer und religioser Titel und Ausdrucke, des weiteren Editionen und Studien von Texten und Textfragmenten in Pahlavi, Sogdisch, Khotan-Sakisch und Judaeo-Persisch. Von besonderem Interesse ist das vorliegende Werk auf diese Weise fur die Rechtsgeschichte, Kultur- und Religionswissenschaften, sowie fur die Philologie und Linguistik.

  • Edited by Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst
  • Edited by Almut Hintze
  • Edited by Claudius Naumann