Inaugural Lecture of Zartoshty Professor Almut Hintze: Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition

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Date
Time
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Venue
Brunei Gallery
Room
Lecture Theatre

About this event

Zartoshty Professor Almut Hintze

This lecture discusses archaic and innovative features of Zoroastrian religious belief and practice and engages in the current scholarly debate on the growth of the Zoroastrian tradition. Almut Hintze is Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS. Holding degrees from the universities of Heidelberg, Oxford, Erlangen and Berlin, her field is Zoroastrian literature and religion. Her major publications include a study of the semantics of words for ‘reward’ in Vedic and Avestan (2000) and commentaries and annotated editions of Zoroastrian texts, including the Avestan Zamyād Yašt (1994) and the Yasna Haptanghaiti (2007).

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Inaugural Lecture of Zartoshty Professor Almut Hintze: Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition

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