IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA is a quest to trace the influence of the prophet the Greeks called Zoroaster and considered the greatest religious legislator of the ancient world. Long before the first Hebrew temple, the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, Zarathustra had taught of a single universal god, of the battle between Good and Evil, of the Devil, Heaven and Hell, and of an eventual end to the world. Over several decades, Paul Kriwaczek, an award-winning television producer, has cast his eye across Europe and ...
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IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA is a quest to trace the influence of the prophet the Greeks called Zoroaster and considered the greatest religious legislator of the ancient world. Long before the first Hebrew temple, the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, Zarathustra had taught of a single universal god, of the battle between Good and Evil, of the Devil, Heaven and Hell, and of an eventual end to the world. Over several decades, Paul Kriwaczek, an award-winning television producer, has cast his eye across Europe and Central Asia, from Hadrian's Wall to the Oxus river, from the Pyrenees to the Hindu Kush. Passing via Nietzsche's interpretation of Zarathustra for a post-religious age, the Cathars of 13th-century France, the Bulgars of 9th-century Balkans, and the prophet Mani's revision of Zarathustra's message in the later Persian empire, Paul Kriwaczek then explores the religion of Mithras ' before going back past Alexander the Great's destruction of the Persian Empire, and the era of the great Persian kings Cyrus and Darius in the 6th century BC, to the beginning of the first pre-Christian millennium.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed, text clean and unmarked. Book appears unread. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 248 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good in Good+ jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Black hardcover, yellow spine with gold-color lettering, map endpapers, xv, 248 pp., 28 color and b/w illustrations, unclipped illustrated jacket. Small red remainder dot on bottom edge of text block, light wear at ends of spine, no owner names or gift notes, clean pages, tight binding. Jacket has rubbing marks on the rear panel but otherwise is in nice condition. A fascinating journey through time and across Europe and Central Asia, in search of the prophet Zarathustra (a. k. a. Zoroaster)--perhaps the greatest religious lawgiver of the ancient world--and his vast influence.