Zoroaster's Own Contribution

I. Gershevitch

DOI:10.1086/371754

Corpus ID: 161954467

Zoroaster's Own Contribution

@article{Gershevitch1964ZoroastersOC,
  title={Zoroaster's Own Contribution},
  author={I. Gershevitch},
  journal={Journal of Near Eastern Studies},
  year={1964},
  volume={23},
  pages={12 - 38}
}

I. Gershevitch
Published 1964
History
Journal of Near Eastern Studies

nominator of these two apparently irreconcilable viewpoints is in Zoroaster's system Truth. For Truth is one of the organs, aspects, or emanations of Ahura Mazdah through which the god acts and becomes accessible. Two religions, therefore, appear to have been syncretized by the prophet: a monotheism centered in a god of whom Truth is an emanation, and a dualism in which Truth is primordial.3 The prophet himself refers to God's aspects or emanations by expressions which we may translate as… Expand

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