The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. The studies in this volume encompass a diverse array of topics concerning these religious communities inhabiting the Sasanian Empire. Some include the Roman East in their deliberations. Most, however, deal with the interaction of one or other religious community based in the Sasanian Empire with the dominant religion of the empire, Zoroastrianism.

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Table of Contents (page 5)
Preface (page 7)
Abbreviations (page 9)
Introduction (page 11)
Political Theology and Religious Diversity in the Sasanian Empaire (by Adam H. Becker) (page 17)
Another 'Split Diaspora'? How Knowledgeable (or Ignorant) were Babylonian Jews about Roman Palestine and its Jews? (by Isaiah M. Gafni) (page 37)
Antizoroastrische Polemik in den Syro-Persischen Martyrerakten (by Peter Burns) (page 57)
The Last Years of Yazdgird I and the Christians (by Geoffrey Herman) (page 77)
To Convert a Persian and Teach him the Holy Scriptures: A Zoroastrian Proselyte in Rabbinic and Syriac Christian Narratives (by Reuven Kiperwasser and Serge Ruzer) (page 101)
The Cologne Mani Codex and the Life of Zarathushtra (by Albert De Jong) (page 139)
Dynamics of Christian Acculturation in the Sasanian Empire: Some Iranian Motifs in the Cave of Treasures (by Sergey Minov) (page 159)
Zechariah and the Bubbling Blood: An Ancient Tradition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Literature (by Richard Kalmin) (page 213)
Bibliography (page 263)
List of Contributors (page 307)
Index (page 311)