Macuch, Maria & Arash Zeini (eds.). 2024. Deciphering the illegible: Festschrift in honour of Dieter Weber (Iranica 33). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
The commemorative publication Deciphering the Illegible is dedicated to Dieter Weber, one of the most important scholars in the field of Iranian Studies, who is best known for his work on deciphering original documents in the extremely ambiguous Pahlavi cursive script, which was long considered ‘illegible’. In addition to an appreciation of his research and a bibliography of his publications, the volume contains twenty-eight contributions by renowned experts, reflecting the broad spectrum of the dedicatee’s academic interests and research work. The articles cover a wide range of topics and offer many new insights and original perspectives on religious, linguistic and historical problems, including several editions of previously unpublished texts.
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Table of Contents
- Dieter Weber — A Scholarly Profile
- Publications of Dieter Weber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo: Three Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Armenia
- Thomas Benfey: Windādag’s Orders: Ten Unpublished Middle Persian Ostracafrom Chāl Ṭarkhān-ʿEshqābād
- Adam Benkato: A Manichaean Remedy for Headaches
- Alberto Cantera: The Passive Suffix -ī̆h̆– in Middle Persian
- Carlo G. Cereti: From the Zamyād Yašt to the Seventh Book of the Dēnkard, Some Notes on Sistan and Zoroastrian Eschatology
- Iris Colditz: How to Make Clarified Butter in Sogdian
- Touraj Daryaee: The Owl in the Zoroastrian Tradition: Contribution to Iranian Bestiary I
- Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst: Hübschmann and the Middle Iranian Part on Armenian Loanwords
- Shervin Farridnejad and Arash Zeini: “Who Will Protect the Cattle”? On Dogs and the Sin of Meat Consumption in Zoroastrianism
- Ela Filippone: A Contribution to Pahlavi Lexicography: The Case of ⟨twk(‘)⟩ and ⟨twp(‘)⟩ in the Pahlavi Corpus and their Possible Cognates in Modern Iranian Languages
- Philippe Gignoux †: Sur l’argenterie sassanide, relectures et nouveautés
- Rika Gyselen: Le y final et le trait final en moyen-perse: le cas des sceaux des administrations territoriales
- Almut Hintze: The Pahlavi Psalter in its Historical Context
- Philip Huyse: Klimawandel und die spätantike Pest im sasanidischen Reich
- Götz König: Notizen zur Überlieferung und zum Gebrauch der Yašts
- Pavel B. Lurje and Boris Zheleznyakov: “Let Buyruq Sangun Live Long and be Divinely Blessed” Another Sogdian Dedicatory Inscription
- Maria Macuch: Trading with Infidels: A Balancing Act in Zoroastrian Legal Reasoning
- Mauro Maggi: Blowing out saṃsāra in Khotan.
- Jaime Martínez Porro: A Brief Note on an Avestan Quotation in the Wizī̆rgerd ī̆ Dēnī̆g
- Enrico Morano: Fragments from a Sogdian Cosmogonical Manuscript in Manichaean Script.
- Antonio Panaino: The ‘starred’ Frawahr and the ‘Katasterization’ of Humanity
- Anna-Grethe Rischel: Studies of ‘Watermarks of Technology’ from the Turfan Collection in Berlin
- Adriano V. Rossi: Minima Iranica for Dieter
- Nikolaus Schindel: Zur Bronzeprägung des Ohrmazd IV.
- Martin Schwartz: Mnemonica Iranica
- Nicholas Sims-Williams: Further Notes on Sogdians in Khotan
- Yutaka Yoshida: Training of Scribes along the Silk Road: A Case from Manichaean Sogdian
- Arash Zeini: The Covenant that Binds: Ownership of Life in Late Antique Zoroastrianism