This dissertation argues that YHWH's eyes were hypostasized in Persian period Yehud, as represented in Zech 4:10b and 2 Chron 16:9. The language of hypostatization is chosen in purposeful contradistinction from the language of demonization that has been previously proposed. The …
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In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India is a historical study of the discursive practices by which Zoroastrians struggled to define their communal identity through constructions of the central …
The Roman-Sasanian War of the seventh century CE was the last conflict of late antiquity. Šahanšah Xusrō II nearly conquered the Roman Empire. James Howard-Johnston has studied the war extensively. Walter Kaegi has produced a biography of Xusrō II's opponent, Heraclius, while Ge…
This brief, focused ethnographic study investigated the unique problems and adaptations of Zoroastrianism in North America and how they made it distinct from the religion practiced in the mother communities of India and Iran. The field research took place in the Zoroastrian comm…
This study examines the history of the Parsi community from their arrival in India until the middle of the nineteenth century, giving special emphasis to the impact that other religious and social systems existing in India had on the formation of Parsi identity and also to the c…
This thesis traced one of the roots of archetypal psychology to Persian theosophy and to its earliest origins in Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism). James Hillman has stated that one of the fathers of archetypal psychology is Henry Corbin who was a scholar of the form of Islamic mysticis…
The following work is a study of the church of Syria in the fifth century in its cultural context--that of Sasanian Persia. Narsai, the head of "The School of the Persians," is taken as the subject as his theology is studied and compared with the theology of his cultural milieu.…
As myriad opinions on the concept of the soul survive from antiquity, it is unlikely that the topic held only a simple theoretical significance. In fact, Greco-Roman philosophers show that the soul (psyche ) is important not only for the delineation of anthropology, but also bec…
The aim of this dissertation is to explore how Iranian identity maintains its continuity throughout its history. Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian cultural identity have persisted from ancient times until now. The spheres of reli…
For over half a century, academic scholarship of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) has focused primarily on the dynamics of this work's internal textual (lower and higher criticism) and hermeneutical phenomena. This dissertation participates in a recent scholarly endeavor to conscio…
This thesis analyzes the intellectual history of Iran between the seventh and the thirteenth centuries. The theoretical part of the analysis is based on the works of Marx, Weber, and Habermas. The Sociology of Region of Weber as well as the Theory of Communicative Action of Habe…
Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai Secunda pieces together …
The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud-one of Judaism's most central texts-in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli.
Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai Secunda pieces together …
The Iranian Talmud reexamines the Babylonian Talmud--one of Judaism's most central texts--in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli.
This book reexamines the Babylonian Talmud - one of Judaism's most central texts - in the light of Persian literature and culture, providing an accessible overview to the vibrant world of pre-Islamic Iran that shaped the Bavli.