This Retake article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in
Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing …

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 …

This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the
oldest living religions Evenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an …

Zoroastrianism, like any religion or cultural system, may be studied from either the internal or
the external point of view. The internal, or emic, perspective arises from investigating the …

Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity provides an example of
the innovative power of ancient scholarly patronage by looking at a key moment in the …

In Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings the authors explore evidence arising from their
project to edit the Chester Beatty Kephalaia codex. This new text presents Mani at the heart …

Bu tez çalışması düalizm kavramı çerçevesinde Mecusilik, Sâbiîlik ve Maniciliğin düalist tanrı
anlayışı üzerinde yoğunlaşmaktadır. Düalizm, varlığın mahiyet ve kemiyet itibariyle karşıt …

Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the
intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of …

One of the issues between the Messenger and the unbelievers in the Quran is the
Messenger's claim that the dead will be resurrected and judged, thereafter to live for ever in …

Sasanian Iran and the address of a centuries-old Jewish community, ac commodated an
astonishingly diverse array of ethnic and religious com munities. 1 Kird? r, the most powerful …