{"id":3910,"date":"2025-05-16T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2025-05-16T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:50:13","slug":"miguel-angel-andres-toledo-2025-the-zoroastrian-manuscripts-of-the-matenadaran-brill-publishers-leiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/miguel-angel-andres-toledo-2025-the-zoroastrian-manuscripts-of-the-matenadaran-brill-publishers-leiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel \u00c1ngel Andr\u00e9s-Toledo, 2025, The Zoroastrian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran, Brill Publishers, Leiden."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3910\" class=\"elementor elementor-3910\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de48341 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"de48341\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7ddde3 ahura-dark-mode-filter-texts-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7ddde3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Armenia was a stronghold of the Zoroastrian religion in antiquity and late antiquity. Of the rich Zoroastrian literature that was composed and transmitted in the region, no single text was extant there after long periods of cultural, political and religious changes.<br \/>The three Zoroastrian manuscripts of this facsimile edition, containing precious copies of texts in the Avestan, Pahlavi and Zoroastrian New Persian languages, are the only exception. Stemming from Iran and now preserved at the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), they are heirs of an ancient Iranian faith that once flourished also in Armenia.<br \/>Miguel \u00c1ngel Andr\u00e9s-Toledo, Ph.D. (2009), University of Salamanca, is FEZANA Professor of Zoroastrian Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He has published several articles and monographs, including <em>The Zoroastrian Law to Expel the Demons: W\u012bd\u0113wd\u0101d 10-15<\/em> (Harrassowitz, 2016).<\/p><p>Link:<\/p><div style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/display\/title\/71093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/brill.com\/display\/title\/71093<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-lg superwebshare-button-default superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #BD3854;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia was a stronghold of the Zoroastrian religion in antiquity and late antiquity. Of the rich Zoroastrian literature that was composed and transmitted in the region, no single text was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"content_types":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"content_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_types?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}