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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism

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Avesta

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Peer-reviewed edited reference volume for current historical, philological, ritual, and reception scholarship; corrective to treating the Avesta as one authored book or to making wholesale influence claims from thematic resemblance.

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The Avesta is a layered sacred corpus rather than a single work authored at one time.

Answer / theory: No. It is a layered sacred corpus. What supports it: Its surviving parts include liturgies, hymns, ritual law, prayers, and commentary traditions. What is weak or disputed: Popular summaries flatten it into one scripture like a single-volume Bible. Evidence level: Strong Evidence.
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The Avesta is a layered Zoroastrian sacred corpus transmitted orally and ritually; the extant corpus is partial and survives in manuscripts much later than its oldest Iranian material.

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Zoroastrian tradition associates the Gathas with Zarathustra, while the catalog does not establish personal authorship of the whole Avesta or a certain date and biography.

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Specialist syntheses support prominent Avestan opposition between truth and falsehood and later Zoroastrian dualist development, while a simple model of two equal gods is inadequate.

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