The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition

by Sarah Stewart and Alan Williams

For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the third century AD as the state religion of the Sasanian Empire, it enjoyed imperial patronage and profoundly shaped the culture of antiquity. The Magi of the New Testament most probably were Zoroastrian priests from the Iranian world, while the enigmatic figure of Zarathushtra (or Zoroaster) himself has exerted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784536334
• ISBN13: 9781784536336
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"