The Avestan Hymn to Mithra

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2007
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-05226-9 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, written in the fifth century BC, is the one extensive, ancient literary record of the attributes, companions and cult of the Iranian god whose worship spread, five or six centuries later, as far as Britain. Dr Gershevitch here reproduces Geldner's text and critical apparatus of the Hymn, adding his own introduction, translation and commentary. The introduction offers an orientation on the main problems concerning Mithra: how the god came to be included in the Zoroastrian religious system, his relation to Zarathustra's god Ahura Mazdah, his functions, his development from the stage at which the Indian Mitra is found in the Rig Veda, and the extent to which the Western Mithras has preserved the characteristics of the Avestan Mithra. The text is faced by the English translation, and is followed by Dr Gershevitch's exhaustive commentary.

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: 1. The earliest period; 2. Zarathustrianism; 3. Zoroastrianism; 4. Christensen's theory; 5. Mithra's functions; 6. Ahura; 7. Mithra's companions; 8. The Western Mithras; Text and translation; Commentary; Critical Apparatus; Addenda; Indexes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Übersetzer	Ilya Gershevitch
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	0-521-05226-2 / 0521052262
ISBN-13	978-0-521-05226-9 / 9780521052269
Zustand	Neuware