From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The present work grew out of a series of five lectures delivered by the author at Columbia University in 1985. The plan of the book is to establish as precisely as possible the date and geographic setting of Zoroaster and then to proceed with an historical survey laying out the constitutive elements of the religion, tracing their persistence and vitality down to the present day. Although much of the book draws on Boyce's previous scholarship, especially her History of Zoroastrianism, it modifies some previous positions. In any case, the work presents what, one supposes, is the fully ...