The Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, invites you to the 5th meeting of the Corpus Avesticum

Editing Avestan Texts in the 21st Century: Problems and Perspectives

Participants: M. A. Andrés-Toledo, T. F. Aufderheide, A. Cantera, S. Farridnejad, J. Ferrer, L. Goldman, A. Hintze, J. Kellens, G. König, J. Martínez-Porro, A. Panaino, B. Peschl, É. Pirart, P. Widmer and A. Zeini

Programme:

23 March

• J. Kellens: “Exégèse et grammaire: le destin de l’Ahuna Vairiia”
• A. Panaino: “Y. 71-72 and the end of the Ritual”
• É. Pirart : “Pour de nouveaux fragments avestiques”
• G. König: “Xorde Avesta as an editorial concept? Some considerations.”
• A. Cantera: “Yašt ī keh /yašt ī meh: Sasanian taxonomies of the rituals in Avestan language”
• K. Rezania: “When the text and diagram do not accord. On the textual and diagrammatic representations of the ritual surface of Barǝšnum in Avestan manuscripts”
• B. Peschl: “Simple thematic presents with root vowel ā in Avestan: Textual corruption, genuine Avestan innovation or PIE archaism?”
• J. Martínez-Porro & A. Cantera: “huuarə.xšaētəm. …. raēm and the aporias of the archetype”
• J. Ferrer: “Paleographie et édition”
• T.  F. Aufderheide: “Avestisch <ṇ>: Über den Einfluss der einheimischen Sprachwissenschaft des Alten Indiens zur Verschriftlichung des Avesta”
• F. Dragoni: “The Pāzand of M51”
• P. Widmer: “Editing the Atharvaveda in the 21st century: The Zurich Paippalada project”

24 March

• A. Hintze/L. Goldman: “Transcribing Avestan manuscripts”
• M. A. Andrés-Toledo: “Editing the Pahlavi Widewdad”
• A. Zeini: “Editing the Pahlavi Yasna”
• S. Gholami: “Editing the colophons of Avestan manuscripts”
• Round Table: “Editing Avestan texts in the 21th century: Problems and perspectives”

Time & Place: 23.03.2017 – 24.03.2017, Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin