Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran, significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious ...reformer Zoroaster) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. Beyond Iran, the Zoroastrian disapora is significant especially in India, where the Gujarati-speaking community of emigrants from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves 'Parsis'. But there are also significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere, such as in the USA, Britain and Canada, where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and directions. This new, thorough and wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested in discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting words 'Magi' and 'magic', and whose adherents still live according to the code of 'Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.' The central Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a choice between the path of 'good' and 'evil', represented by the contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, inspired thinkers as diverse as Voltaire, Mozart and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows why Zoroastrianism remains one of the world's most inspiring and perennially fascinating systems of ethics and belief._x000D__x000D_'Jenny Rose's lively and engaging account comprises a very readable, well informed survey of Zoroastrianism and its history. The book is a pleasure to read throughout, and the author's writing style is markedly beautiful, placing her very much within Mary Boyce's literary tradition. Rose has read widely round the subject, engaging with important primary and secondary sources and rendering her thorough treatment of Zoroastrianism fully up-to-date. I particularly welcomed her valuable discussion of Zoroastrianism in Central Asia. All in all, the book is a fine example of considered synthesis and compression. This is a book one wants to read from beginning to end without putting it down. It will find a warm welcome from students of the subject and their teachers.'_x000D_- Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism, SOAS, University of London
The paper deals with the role played in Christian apologetics by the euhemeristic explanation of pagan myths. While hardly present in Greek Christian apologetics at all, it was quite popular in Latin ...and employed by all important apologists from Tertullian to Augustine. The article focuses on the euhemeristic elements in Tertullian and Arnobius, with brief references to other authors. Latin apologists used euhemeristic principles chiefly to show the humanity and moral depravity of the pagan gods, in order to render their worship obsolete. The only one to defend the divinity of Christ by representing him as a benefactor of mankind was Arnobius, but his attempts were unsuccessful and found no followers.
Bog in bogovi pri Arnobiju Maver, Aleš
Keria (Ljubljana.),
07/2007, Letnik:
9, Številka:
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Journal Article
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The article discusses the Arnobius’ apologetic writing Against the Heathen, whereby the author’s (at least among Christians) unconventional concept of divinity is the special point of interest. The ...introductory part of article discusses some rare notices on Arnobius’ life, preserved mainly in Jerome’s writings, his main sources and his influence in later centuries. The main part of the paper is dedicated to Arnobius’ representation of Christian God in opposition to pagan gods. The author’s main objective is to show the perversity and wrongness of pagan worship. This is done by his emphasis of the gap between God and man, based on his peculiar anthropology. This is of particular importance, because Arnobius’ criticism of paganism is greatly built on euchemeristic principles. So his degradation of pagan gods is total, even if he acknowledges their existence. To achieve his purpose he also strictly denies any possibility of allegoric interpretation of myths, particularly popular with Neoplatonic philosophers of his time.
Fizični opis: Kodeks, ki je le delno ohranjen, ima obrezane folije v velikosti 30 x 22,5 cm. Zapisan je v karolinški minuskuli z rjavo tinto, le incipiti, ekspliciti in naslovi so izpisani z rdečo ...tinto. Zrcalo je enokolonsko, edini okras pa predstavljajo skromne, 1-3 vrstice visoke iniciale v rjavi ali rdeči tinti. Razen skromnih kaligrafskih inicial rokopis nima drugega okrasa. Vezava (rjavo usnje čez leseno osnovo) je verjetno iz 13. stoletja (restavrirano v NUK); okovje deloma ohranjeno.Primeri inicial: V (pikčast) - 81v, Q (z obrazom) - 101v.Neume: predlist r, 44v, 45v, 75v, 76r, 118v.(Germ 2005, str. 74; Kos-Stele 1931, str. 96-98.)
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