Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians
Subtitle: religious dynamics in a Sasanian context
By: edited by Geoffrey Herman
Series: Judaism in context -- 17; Judaism in context -- 17.
Publisher: Gorgias Press; Gorgias Pr Llc
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Piscataway
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781463202507
Subjects: Zoroastrians; Jews; Christentum; Judentum; Congresses; Sassanids; Religious minorities; Parsismus; Christians; History
Description: "The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. It was where old religions met more recent arrivals, and where both new and old were transformed as a result of this contact. While some religious communities shared more than others, and this for historical or geographical reasons, some form of contact and exchange with Zoroastrianism, the religion of the ruling dynasty and of many of the inhabitants of the empire was undoubtedly the rule for all. The studies in this volume explore the dynamics between these communities within the broad Sasanian religious and cultural context and encompass a diverse array of topics concerning, in particular, Jews, Christians, and Manichaeans. Some include the Roman East in their deliberations. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other Sasanian religious community with Zoroastrianism."--
Notes: "This volume explores the contacts between Jews and Christians within the broader religious and cultural context of the Sasanian Empire. It collects the proceedings of a workshop that took place on March 17-18th, 2010, in Bochum"--Summary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Political Theology and Religious Diversity in the Sasanian Empaire / by Adam H. Becker; title: Another 'Split Diaspora'? How Knowledgeable (or Ignorant) were Babylonian Jews about Roman Palestine and its Jews? / by Isaiah M. Gafni; title: Antizoroastrische Polemik in den Syro-Persischen Martyrerakten / by Peter Burns; title: The Last Years of Yazdgird I and the Christians / by Geoffrey Herman; title: To Convert a Persian and Teach him the Holy Scriptures: A Zoroastrian Proselyte in Rabbinic and Syriac Christian Narratives / by Reuven Kiperwasser and Serge Ruzer; title: The Cologne Mani Codex and the Life of Zarathushtra / by Albert De Jong; title: Dynamics of Christian Acculturation in the Sasanian Empire: Some Iranian Motifs in the Cave of Treasures / by Sergey Minov; title: Zechariah and the Bubbling Blood: An Ancient Tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Literature / by Richard Kalmin.