The Zend Avesta Part I: The Sacred Books of the East Part Four

by F. Max Müller (Editor), James Darmesteter (Translator)

The Zend Avesta The Sacred Books of the East V4 is a book written by F. Max Muller. It is the first volume of the Zend Avesta, which is a collection of sacred texts from the Zoroastrian religion. The book contains translations of the texts, along with commentary and analysis by Muller. The Zend Avesta is considered to be one of the most important texts in the Zoroastrian religion, and this book provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of religion. It covers topics such as the creation of the world, the nature of God, and the afterlife. The book is written in English and is accessible to readers with a basic understanding of religious texts. Overall, The Zend Avesta The Sacred Books of the East V4 is a comprehensive and insightful guide to the Zoroastrian religion and its sacred texts.1880. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. The Zend Avesta Part I contains The Fargard I-XXII. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Genres: Religion, Theology, Philosophy

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2004

About the author

Friedrich Max Müller, K.M. (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1843)—generally known as Max Müller or F. Max Müller—was the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, and an Orientalist who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology and the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction.

Müller became a naturalized British citizen in 1855. In 1869, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a foreign correspondent. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (civil class) in 1874, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art the following year. In 1888, he was appointed Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, delivering the first in what has proved to be an ongoing, annual series of lectures at several Scottish universities to the present day. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1896.

His wife, Georgina Adelaide Müller was also an author. After Max's death, she deposited his papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Reviews

[Hibiscus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading religious scriptures requires some special mood. I need to confess that I didn't always approach this book with the proper attitude. Given my background, I thought that Zoroastrian theology would be readily understandable to me, wrongly. This collection of rituals, traditions, and rules is a true relict, a glimpse into a different reality, a world largely vanished in the fog of history. It defies rationality, it often makes no sense, yet the more dogmatic it gets, the more it mesmerizes and strangely feels real.

Let this be my first step into the message delivered to the prophet of Ormizd.