Colpe, Carsten  Iranier-Aramäer-Hebräer-Hellenen. Iranische Religionen und ihre Westbeziehungen. Einzelstudien und Versuch einer Zusammenfassung
2003. XVII, 709 pages. WUNT I 154

ISBN 978-3-16-147800-0
cloth € 179.00

Carsten Colpe

Iranier-Aramäer-Hebräer-Hellenen

Iranische Religionen und ihre Westbeziehungen. Einzelstudien und Versuch einer Zusammenfassung

[Iranians - Aramaeans - Hebrews - Hellenes. Iranian Religions and their Relationship to the West. By Carsten Colpe.]

Published in German.

Depending on the observer's point of view, the Persians in the pre-Christian era were regarded either as "saviors of the faith" or as "barbarians," a barbarian in this case being someone who "performs cruel deeds." Based on these contradictory ways of viewing the Iranian-Asian area, Carsten Colpe traces the history of this territory from the discernibility of Iranian-Aryans (around 1000 BC) to the Iranian culture under the Samanides. Within these 2000 years, he focuses on the half a millennium around the beginning of our calendar. Colpe studies the most significant overlapping religious phenomena which originated during this time - apocalypticism, mysteries, gnosis - and puts them into a larger context, thus enabling a comparison of the conditions under which they originated.

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