Rasn Yast
The Avestan Hymn to ‘Justice’
By (author) Leon Goldman
Hardback (Published)
(September 2015)
ISBN: 9783954901081
6.69 x 9.45 inches
Price: $104.00
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This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The text is accompanied by an English translation, philological commentary and glossary. In addition, the main themes of the Rašn Yašt are taken up for detailed discussion, covering the Zoroastrian deity Rašnu, ancient Iranian cosmography, and the use of ordeal rituals in pre-Islamic Iran. <br/>
For the first time, this work treats in a comprehensive manner the Rasn Yast, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The Rasn Yast stands in praise of the Zoroastrian deity Rasnu ‘Justice’ and belongs to the group of religious texts known as the Avesta – a collection of compositions in the ancient Iranian language of Avestan. Although the Rasn Yast, like all of the Avesta, is generally assumed to have been committed to writing either during or shortly after the Sasanian era (224-651 CE.), its verses were probably composed during the early first millennium BCE. The present monograph contains an English translation of the Rasn Yast supported by a critical edition of the Avestan text. The latter is based on the testimony of thirteen manuscripts, of which nine were newly collated. Variant readings from the manuscripts are recorded in a detailed and easy to read apparatus. Matters of a philological or text critical nature are taken up for discussion in an accompanying commentary and all forms appearing in the Rasn Yast are parsed in the text’s glossary. In addition, this book includes three introductory chapters that aim to elucidate the key themes of the Rasn Yast. The first chapter concerns the titular divinity Rasnu and explores his role as a judicial figure, both in this world and the hereafter. The second chapter explicates the cosmographic scheme which is uniquely preserved in the Hymn to Justice and argues this map of the universe encodes numerical and spatial patterns. The third chapter draws upon Avestan and Middle Persian sources to give an in depth account of the use of ordeal rituals in ancient Iran – a practice with which Rasnu is intimately associated and which is repeatedly mentioned in the Rasn Yast. This work is intended for specialist and more general audiences alike, and is principally aimed at those with interests in Indo-Iranian philology, Zoroastrianism, ancient Iran and comparative religion.
- By (author) Leon Goldman
"Goldman's Rasn Yast is without doubt the new standard edition to consult for anyone working with material from Y12. Thanks to the extended introductory remarks in section 1, the book may also function as a point of entry to the Yast genre in general. Indeed the fact that most of the philological arguments are spelled out at lenght makes the book accessible for non-specialists as well." Benedikt Peschl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen), Indo-Iranian Journal 60 (2017) 285-301
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„Goldman’s Rasn Yast is without doubt the new standard edition to consult for anyone working with material from Y12. Thanks to the extended introductory remarks in section 1, the book may also function as a point of entry to the Yast genre in general. Indeed the fact that most of the philological arguments are spelled out at lenght makes the book accessible for non-specialists as well.“<br/><br/>Von: Benedikt Peschl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)<br/>In: Indo-Iranian Journal 60 (2017) 285-301.
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