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SUMMARY:Workshop | The Text of the Priests - The Text of the Laity
DTSTART:20140220T090000Z
DTEND:20140221T120000Z
DTSTAMP:20260409T030955Z
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DESCRIPTION:Leaflet\nOver the past few years\, it has become evident in th
 e studies of the Avesta that some of its once sharply distinguished textua
 l and text-sociological categories have to be regarded as more fluid ones.
  Thus\, the legitimacy of the formerly postulated rigid split of the Avest
 an texts into texts of the priests and texts of the laity is questionable 
 to a certain extent. In a historical perspective\, the texts of the so-cal
 led Avesta of the laity (the Xorde Avesta) are in themselves\, at least in
  large parts\, the remains of priestly liturgies. Therefore\, the task tha
 t remains today is to describe of transmission of the Avesta as a concrete
  textual history. This history is based on the priests and the laity and o
 n the interplay of both groups\, but it also depends on the radical politi
 cal and religious changes in the first millennium BC and AD.\nIt is the pu
 rpose of this workshop to examine the historical and systematic relation b
 etween the texts of the priests and those of the laity in Zoroastrianism. 
 Furthermore\, the workshop should also give an impetus for (more or less n
 eglected) sociological research of the Zoroastrian religion. Last but not 
 least\, circumstances underlying the Zoroastrian textual materials should 
 be compared with those of the other important religion in (late) antique I
 ran\, Manichaeism.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/de-20140220-worshop-text-priests-laity/
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