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SUMMARY:Workshop | The Text of the Priests - The Text of the Laity
DTSTART:20140220T090000Z
DTEND:20140221T120000Z
DTSTAMP:20260409T012605Z
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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 textu
 al and  text-sociological categories have to be regarded as more fluid one
 s.  Thus\, the legitimacy of the formerly postulated rigid split of the  A
 vestan texts into texts of the priests and texts of the laity is  question
 able to a certain extent. In a historical perspective\, the texts  of the 
 so-called Avesta of the laity (the Xorde Avesta) are in  themselves\, at l
 east in large parts\, the remains of priestly liturgies.  Therefore\, the 
 task that remains today is to describe of transmission of  the Avesta as a
  concrete textual history. This history is based on the  priests and the l
 aity and on the interplay of both groups\, but it also  depends on the rad
 ical political and religious changes in the first  millennium BC and AD.\n
 It is the purpose of this workshop to  examine the historical and systemat
 ic relation between the texts of the  priests and those of the laity in Zo
 roastrianism. Furthermore\, the  workshop should also give an impetus for 
 (more or less neglected)  sociological research of the Zoroastrian religio
 n. Last but not least\,  circumstances underlying the Zoroastrian textual 
 materials should be  compared with those of the other important religion i
 n (late) antique  Iran\, Manichaeism.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140220-worshop-text-priests-laity/
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