Albert F. de Jong, professor of comparative religion at Leiden University and a leading scholar of Zoroastrianism, examines in this peer reviewed chapter the specifically Persian and Zoroastrian religious traditions underlying Antiochus I of Commagene's royal cult, arguing against readings that treat Commagene's Persian elements as either wholesale invention or the product of a single monolithic Zoroastrianism, and situating the Nemrud Dagi cult within the wider history of Iranian religion under Hellenistic rule.
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A peer reviewed academic book chapter by Albert F. de Jong, professor of comparative religion at Leiden University and a leading scholar of Zoroastrianism, published by the academic press Franz Steiner Verlag, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable peer reviewed scholarship, used here for the specifically Zoroastrian religious content of Antiochus I's cult at Nemrud Dagi, corroborated by Encyclopaedia Iranica's own account of Antiochus's reign and monument. NotesA chapter in Common Dwelling Place of All the Gods: Commagene in Its Local, Regional and Global Hellenistic Context, Oriens et Occidens volume 34, edited by M. Blomer, S. Riedel, M. J. Versluys and E. Winter, examining the Persian and Zoroastrian religious traditions Antiochus I drew on at Nemrud Dagi.
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AuthorAlbert F. de Jong
PublisherFranz Steiner Verlag
Publication Year2021
Source Typebook chapter
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