17 & 18 octobre 2024
The Buttery, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Comité scientifique et d’organisation
- Samra Azarnouche (Professor of Zoroastrian Studies, EPHE-PSL/CeRMI, Paris)
- Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford)
Les actes seront publiés en 2025 dans la Bibliothèque des Hautes Études – Sciences religieuses de l’EPHE.
Une deuxième session de cet évènement doit avoir lieu fin 2026 à Paris.
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PROGRAMME
Thursday, 17 October 2024
9:15–9:30 Welcome address and introduction
Session 1: Dēnkard Book III
9:30–10:00 Kianoosh Rezania & Ted Good (Bochum)
From Unlimited to Limited: The Concept of Time in the Dēnkard and the Greater Bundahišn
10:00–10:30 Mihaela Timuș (Bucharest)
Conceptualizing the Cosmogonic Myth (Dēnkard III.123, 191, 194, 362)
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:30 Arash Zeini (Oxford)
Revisiting the Dēnkard‘s abestāg narratives: A theological dialogue with Zādspram
11:30–12:00 Ted Good (Bochum)
Method and Dēnkard III
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
Session 2: Dēnkard Books IV and V
14:00-14:30 Thomas Benfey (Tübingen)
Māshāʾallāh and Dēnkard IV on the Sasanian Reception of Greco-Roman and Indian Astral Science
14:30-15:00 : Samra Azarnouche (Paris)
Ēwēn-nāmag (Dēnkard IV) as a Mirror of the Iranian Intellectual Elite in the early Islamic Period
15:00-15:30 : Discussion on Dēnkard Book V
15:30-16:00 : Coffee break
Session 3: Dēnkard Book VI
16:00–16:30 Götz König (Berlin)
Considerations on the Textual and Intellectual Coherence of Dēnkard VI
16:30–17:00 Miguel Ángel Andrés- Toledo (Toronto)
Dēnkard VI as Literature: Some Metrical Texts
17:00–17:30 General discussion
Friday, 18 October 2024
Session 4: Dēnkard Book VII
9:00–9:30 Daniel Sheffield (Princeton)
Tales of the Dēn, Tales of the Prophet: DēnkardVII and Zoroastrian Sacred Biography
9:30–10:00 Domenico Agostini (Naples)
Mythical and Historical Apocalypse in Dēnkard VII. A Comparative Approach to Pahlavi Apocalyptic Literature
10:00–10:30 Massimiliano Vassalli (Rome)
Weaving Faith and Fiction: Theology and Narrative Entwined in Dēnkard VII
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
Session 5: Dēnkard Book VIII
11:00–11:30 Benedikt Peschl (Berlin)
Approaching Dēnkard VIII through its Terminology: Key Concepts, Absences and Questions of Purpose and Chronology
11:30–12:00 Alberto Bernard (Paris)
Priests and Judges in Dēnkard VIII: Sources and Strata
12h00-14h00 Lunch break
Session 6: Dēnkard Books IX
14:00-14h30 Alberto Cantera (Berlin)
Beyond Dēnkard IX: On the Avestan Versions of some fragards of the Gāhānīg Nasks
14:30-15:00 : Yuhan S-D Vevaina (Oxford)
Dēnkard IX as ‘Literature,’ ‘Theology,’ and ‘Scholasticism’
Session 7: Historical context
15:00-15:30 Kayla Dang (St. Louis)
Heirs to the Sasanians: The Dēnkard’s Priests in Islamic Society
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:00 Discussion and wrap up