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Zoroastrianism and Ancient Iranian Religion

The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism

by R. C. Zaehner

A history of Zoroastrian thought from Zarathustra to the Sasanian period by an Oxford scholar of religion. Zaehner discusses the Gathas, later Avestan religion, Zurvanism and Pahlavi theology. Influential, though some of its interpretations have been challenged.

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