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Essays on Zarathustra and
Zoroastrianism 
By Jean Kellens
Translated and Edited By
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
 Jean Kellens, one
of the foremost experts on Old Iranian literature for the last quarter of a century, is
professor at the Collège de France, Paris. He
began his Iranian studies with Professor Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin at Liège, Belgium, in
the 1960s before going to Erlangen, Germany, to continue his education in Old Iranian and
Old Indic literatures with Professor Karl Hoffmann. Here
he obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on the Avestan root nouns. From 1974 to 1980 he was the assistant professor
to Professor Helmut Humbach at Mainz, Germany, where he finished his Habilitation thesis
on the Avestan verb. He continued his career
as assistant professor and then full professor at the University of Liège from 1983 to
1993, when he went to Paris. He has dedicated his career to the elucidation of the most
difficult of ancient literature, the Avesta, the holy book of the old Iranian
Zoroastrians. Between 1988 and 1991 he
published together with Eric Pirart a scholarly edition and translation of the oldest
texts in the Avesta, including the Gathas ascribed to Zarathustra, that laid the
foundation for modern work on these texts. Since
that time he has continued to refine our knowledge of both these texts and the younger
Avestan texts.
This book contains a series
of articles from the period 1987 to 1994 plus the four lectures he gave at the Collège de
France in 1990, which encompass Kellens's most important work on the Old Avesta. The English translation of this work is intended
to make it accessible to the larger audience it deserves, including students of Old
Iranian and Indic, as well as Indo-Europeanists and historians of religion.
Prods Oktor Skjærvø, translator and editor of the volume, has written extensively on a
variety of aspects of Iranian civilization, from modern dialects, via Sasanian
inscriptions and Khotanese Buddhist texts from Central Asia, to Old Persian and Avestan. He currently teaches Old Iranian languages,
literature, and religions at Harvard University in Cambridge.
Specifications:
2000: viii + 144pp.
ISBN:1-56859-129-2
(paper): $19.95
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Bist-o-seh Sal
Colossal Elephant
Essay on Zarathurstra and Zoroastrianism
The Mirror of Meaning
On Islam and Shi`ism
Rumi and the Sufi Tradition
Secrets Of God's Mystical Oneness
Twenty Three Years
When You Hear Hoofbeats
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrian Tradition
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