Re: Avesta

I know nothing, really, about Zoroastrian tradition and texts, but I guess I'd start with Mary Boyce, a classic orientalist https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fnews%2F2006%2Fapr%2F11%2Fguardianobituaries.religion&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C9d5267647a2f41c5712608d70d6c7510%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636992631807170384&sdata=fDF0mLRkVCrnuQaM7G18pY5vB3r0%2BTINwKgk9FWg810%3D&reserved=0, and her Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism (UChicago 1984, still in print).
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There are some pointers here

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranicaonline.org%2Farticles%2Fgathas-ii-translations&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C9d5267647a2f41c5712608d70d6c7510%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636992631807170384&amp;sdata=koSA1kV5mHTC3zRNqKLQ3iLFOfqPdlB%2BL4pC6MfYLjc%3D&amp;reserved=0

But having read the main article on the text mss, transmission and fragments, there are problems.

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Lorenzo Smerillo

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 22:21 Bradley Skene <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can someone offer offer suggestions for a translation of the Avesta 
> and other ancient Iranian literature that would be acceptable for 
> quotation in a peer-reviewed article?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bradley A. Skeen.
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