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    (2012) A. Cantera, Transmission of The Avesta-Contents

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    This document contains the table of contents for a book on the Avestan texts of Zoroastrianism. The book is divided into four sections covering: 1) the oral composition and writing down of the Avestan texts, 2) analysis of manuscripts containing Avestan texts, 3) work on editing the Avestan texts, and 4) transmission and editing of other Zoroastrian texts such as Pahlavi translations. Each section contains multiple chapters by different authors on topics such as the oral tradition behind the Avesta, dating of the Avestan canon, analysis of newly discovered manuscripts, building genealogical relations between manuscripts, and challenges in editing Pahlavi legal texts.

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    This document contains the table of contents for a book on the Avestan texts of Zoroastrianism. The book is divided into four sections covering: 1) the oral composition and writing down of the Avestan texts, 2) analysis of manuscripts containing Avestan texts, 3) work on editing the Avestan texts, and 4) transmission and editing of other Zoroastrian texts such as Pahlavi translations. Each section contains multiple chapters by different authors on topics such as the oral tradition behind the Avesta, dating of the Avestan canon, analysis of newly discovered manuscripts, building genealogical relations between manuscripts, and challenges in editing Pahlavi legal texts.

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    Contents

    Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
    Abbreviations of Periodicals, Series and Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XIX

    I. From the Oral Composition to the Writing


    Down of the Avestan Texts
    The Zoroastrian Oral Tradition as Reflected in the Texts
    (Prods Oktor Skjrv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Contre lide platonicienne dAvesta ou les Considrations revisites


    (Jean Kellens) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
    Remarks on Language and Composition of the Avestan Prayer Formulas
    in Niyyi 1 (Ulla Remmer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
    The Age of the Avestan Canon and the Origins of the Ritual Written
    Texts (Antonio Panaino) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
    Ibant obscuri uaria sub nocte: Les textes avestiques et leurs recensions
    des Sassanides au XIIIe s. ad en particulier daprs lalphabet avestique.
    Notes de lecture avestiques VIII (Xavier Tremblay ) . . . . . . . . . . . 98
    La mtrique et lhistoire de lAvesta (ric Pirart) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

    II. The Manuscripts and their Analysis


    Twelve Newly Found Avestan Manuscripts in Iran
    (Katayoun Mazdapour) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
    Zoroastrian Manuscripts in the British Library, London
    (Ursula Sims-Williams) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
    The Vendidad Manuscript of the Astan-Qods Library
    (Fateme Jahanpour) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
    A Treasury of Zoroastrian Manuscripts: The First Dastoor Meherjirana
    Library, Navsari (Firoze M. Kotwal and Dan Sheffield) . . . . . . . . 197

    VI

    Contents

    Manuscripts of the Wdwdd (Miguel ngel Andrs-Toledo


    and Alberto Cantera) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
    Manuscripts of the Yasna and Yasna Rapithwin (Almut Hintze) . . . . 244
    Building Trees: Genealogical Relations Between the Manuscripts
    of Wdwdd (Alberto Cantera) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
    The Manuscripts of the Family of L4 (Jaime Martnez Porro) . . . . . . 347
    Das Nask Bayn und das Xorde Awesta (Gtz Knig) . . . . . . . . . . . 355
    Citations avestiques de la Traduction Pehlevie dans la tradition
    manuscrite Vdvdd-Sd (Juan Jos Ferrer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

    III. The Edition of the Avesta


    On Editing the Avesta (Almut Hintze) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
    A Revision of Geldners Critical Edition
    (Miguel ngel Andrs-Toledo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
    Why do we Really Need a New Edition of the Zoroastrian
    Long Liturgy? (Alberto Cantera). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

    IV. The Transmission and Edition of Other Zoroastrian Texts


    Mazdakism and the Canonisation of Pahlavi Translations
    of the Avestan Texts (Kianoosh Rezania) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
    The Pahlavi Translation of Yat 14 (Gtz Knig) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
    Editing Pahlavi Legal Texts: Difficulties and Future Tasks
    (Maria Macuch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
    The Evolution and Transmission of the Third Book of the Dnkard
    (Judith Josephson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

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