Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer -- Introduction / Shaul Shaked -- Avestan Quotations in Old Persian? Literary Sources of the Old Persian Inscriptions / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- Monotheism or Polytheism in the Gathic Revelation? / Philippe Gignoux -- The Saviour and the Dragon in Iranian and Jewish/Christian Eschatology / Almut Hintze -- Iranian Legal Terminology in the Babylonian Talmud in the Light of Sasanian Jurisprudence / Maria Macuch -- Transformation in Forms of Religiosity in the Ancient Iranian and Jewish Traditions / K. D. Irani -- The Legendary History of Iran in the Religio-Historical Account of The Zamyād Yašt (Yt.19) / Pallan R. Ichaporia -- Iran and Israel in the Armenian Epic of Sasun / James R. Russell -- Manichaios, Jywndg Gryw and Other Manichæan Terms and Titles / Dan Shapira -- Iranian Heterography and Aramaic: Some Reflections / Wojciech Skalmowski -- The Impact of Semitic Linguistics on the First Persian Grammars Written in Europe / É. M. Jeremiás -- The Judeo-Persian Pentateuch of Constantinople and the Beginnings of Persian Linguistic Studies in Europe / Paola Orsatti -- Zoroastrian Themes in Geonic Responsa / Robert Brody -- Notes and Observations Concerning Šāhīn’s Birthplace / Amnon Netzer -- Polemical Use of the Qur’ān in Two Judeo-Persian Texts / Vera B. Moreen -- A Judeo-Persian Bible Lexicon: British Library MS 1556 / Herbert H. Paper -- The Mishnaic Tractate Abot in Judeo-Persian Literature / David Yeroushalmi -- A Judeo-Persian Talismanic Textile / Raya Shani -- Queen Esther at Dura: Her Imagery in Light of Third-Century C.E. Oriental Syncretism / Dalia Levit-Tawil -- The Iranian Element in the Dura Synagogue Murals / Bernard Goldman -- The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iran / Simon Hopkins -- Hebrew Section / Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer -- Jewish-Zoroastrian Polemics in the Babylonian Talmud / Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer.

Studies relating to Jewish contact with Persian culture throughout the ages.

English

Description based on print version record.