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Books by Benedikt Peschl
The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā (Ahunauuaiti Gatha), 2022
2022 book based on my PhD thesis (SOAS 2021). See https://brill.com/display/title/63273\. Full ... more 2022 book based on my PhD thesis (SOAS 2021). See https://brill.com/display/title/63273.
Full reference:
Peschl, Benedikt. 2022. The first three hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā. The Avestan text of Yasna 28–30 and its tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies — Corpus Avesticum 32/4). Leiden – New York: Brill.
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Papers by Benedikt Peschl
Indo-Iranian Journal, 2024
The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天 中 天, 'god among gods,'... more The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天 中 天, 'god among gods,' and its relationship with the Indo-Aryan parallel devātideva-, 'foremost god of gods,' have been repeatedly addressed. Past studies of the origin of the expressions sought to establish an ultimate connection to the Achaemenid royal title 'king of kings' (Old Persian xšāyaθiya-xšāyaθiyānām), assuming that the divine epithet was coined based on the royal one. However, the comparative Indo-Iranian evidence speaks for the considerable antiquity of the divine epithet '(foremost) god of gods'-Proto-Indo-Iranian *dai̯ u̯ ānām dai̯ u̯ a(tama)-, replaced by *bagānām baga(tama-) in Old Iranian-and against its secondary character in relation to 'king of kings'. The Middle Iranian corpora show a particularly broad usage of 'god of gods'-like epithets to refer to supreme figures worthy of veneration; the epithet therefore may be considered part of a pan-Iranian religious vocabulary during the first millennium ce. We further make the case that the Buddhist usage of the expression in Middle Iranian languages as well as the appearance of its equivalents in Chinese and Indo-Aryan sources is specifically due to the super-regional influence of a Bactrian prototype, *βαγανο βαγαδαμο.
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Estudios Iranios y Turanios 6 (Festschrift J. Kellens), 2024
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Avestan-Middle Persian tense mismatches in the Zand and the Middle Persian “performative preterite”, 2023
See https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/if-2023-0002/html
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Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2022
Some features of the North-Western Prakrit that was used as the administrative language of the ki... more Some features of the North-Western Prakrit that was used as the administrative language of the kingdom of Kroraina (‘Niya Prakrit’) have in the past been more or less vaguely described as the result of language contact. One particularly striking feature that invites such an account is the innovative preterite of this Prakrit variety. We argue that, from a structural point of view, this formation and its morphosyntactic behaviour can be plausibly attributed to interference from Khotanese. In addition, a scenario involving Khotanese as a substratum language of Niya Prakrit may also be well accounted for from a historical and sociolinguistic perspective.
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Cotticelli Kurras, Paola and Sabine Ziegler (eds.), Tra semantica e sintassi: il ruolo della linguistica storica. Zwischen Semantik und Syntax: Die Rolle der historischen Sprachwissenschaft, Roma, 2019
The aim of this paper is to apply the parameters semanticity, bondedness and syntagmatic variabil... more The aim of this paper is to apply the parameters semanticity, bondedness and syntagmatic variability as laid out in Lehmann (2015) to measure the grammaticalization of spatial expressions in Old Hittite, Vedic Sanskrit, Homeric Greek, Latin, Umbrian, and Tocharian.
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Talks by Benedikt Peschl
Preliminary thoughts and observations on the sources and constitution of the Zoroastrian Middle P... more Preliminary thoughts and observations on the sources and constitution of the Zoroastrian Middle Persian meta-liturgical terminology. Developed during corpus preparation for the MPCD project (Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Corpus and Dictionary). Basis for a more large-scale study and impulse for upcoming lexicographical work in MPCD.
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Talk given at the Webinar on Iranian Studies, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages, Univer... more Talk given at the Webinar on Iranian Studies, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages, University of Tehran, January 21, 2021
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Talk given at the 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Berlin, September 9–13, 2019. Publi... more Talk given at the 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Berlin, September 9–13, 2019. Published as chapter 23 of monograph "The first three hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā" (Brill 2022).
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Talk given at the Annual Seminar of the World Zoroastrian Organisation, London, June 17, 2018
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Talk given at the University of Cologne, April 20, 2018
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Talk given at the University of Cologne, April 19, 2018
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Extended handout of a paper presented at the IG/SIG Conference in Verona, October 2017
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](Talk given at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag (Sektion Indogermanistik / Indo-European Studie... more Talk given at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag (Sektion Indogermanistik / Indo-European Studies), Jena, September 18–22, 2017. I have not yet had a chance to fill in the gaps that remain in the philological data underlying the paper. This piece of research is therefore still awaiting completion.
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Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaea... more Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, Torino, September 11–15, 2017
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Talk given at the Corpus Avesticum Meeting, Berlin, March 23–24, 2017. With an excursus on umlaut... more Talk given at the Corpus Avesticum Meeting, Berlin, March 23–24, 2017. With an excursus on umlaut in Bactrian.
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Paper presented at the 15th Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Vienna, Septembe... more Paper presented at the 15th Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Vienna, September 13–16, 2016
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Talk given at the workshop "Rencontre avestologique: Phonetics and Phonology in Avestan and Beyon... more Talk given at the workshop "Rencontre avestologique: Phonetics and Phonology in Avestan and Beyond", Paris, April 25–26, 2016
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Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, March 18–21, 2016
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Kratylos, 2018
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The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā (Ahunauuaiti Gatha), 2022
2022 book based on my PhD thesis (SOAS 2021). See https://brill.com/display/title/63273\. Full ... more 2022 book based on my PhD thesis (SOAS 2021). See https://brill.com/display/title/63273.
Full reference:
Peschl, Benedikt. 2022. The first three hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā. The Avestan text of Yasna 28–30 and its tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies — Corpus Avesticum 32/4). Leiden – New York: Brill.
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Indo-Iranian Journal, 2024
The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天 中 天, 'god among gods,'... more The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天 中 天, 'god among gods,' and its relationship with the Indo-Aryan parallel devātideva-, 'foremost god of gods,' have been repeatedly addressed. Past studies of the origin of the expressions sought to establish an ultimate connection to the Achaemenid royal title 'king of kings' (Old Persian xšāyaθiya-xšāyaθiyānām), assuming that the divine epithet was coined based on the royal one. However, the comparative Indo-Iranian evidence speaks for the considerable antiquity of the divine epithet '(foremost) god of gods'-Proto-Indo-Iranian *dai̯ u̯ ānām dai̯ u̯ a(tama)-, replaced by *bagānām baga(tama-) in Old Iranian-and against its secondary character in relation to 'king of kings'. The Middle Iranian corpora show a particularly broad usage of 'god of gods'-like epithets to refer to supreme figures worthy of veneration; the epithet therefore may be considered part of a pan-Iranian religious vocabulary during the first millennium ce. We further make the case that the Buddhist usage of the expression in Middle Iranian languages as well as the appearance of its equivalents in Chinese and Indo-Aryan sources is specifically due to the super-regional influence of a Bactrian prototype, *βαγανο βαγαδαμο.
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Estudios Iranios y Turanios 6 (Festschrift J. Kellens), 2024
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Avestan-Middle Persian tense mismatches in the Zand and the Middle Persian “performative preterite”, 2023
See https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/if-2023-0002/html
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Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2022
Some features of the North-Western Prakrit that was used as the administrative language of the ki... more Some features of the North-Western Prakrit that was used as the administrative language of the kingdom of Kroraina (‘Niya Prakrit’) have in the past been more or less vaguely described as the result of language contact. One particularly striking feature that invites such an account is the innovative preterite of this Prakrit variety. We argue that, from a structural point of view, this formation and its morphosyntactic behaviour can be plausibly attributed to interference from Khotanese. In addition, a scenario involving Khotanese as a substratum language of Niya Prakrit may also be well accounted for from a historical and sociolinguistic perspective.
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Cotticelli Kurras, Paola and Sabine Ziegler (eds.), Tra semantica e sintassi: il ruolo della linguistica storica. Zwischen Semantik und Syntax: Die Rolle der historischen Sprachwissenschaft, Roma, 2019
The aim of this paper is to apply the parameters semanticity, bondedness and syntagmatic variabil... more The aim of this paper is to apply the parameters semanticity, bondedness and syntagmatic variability as laid out in Lehmann (2015) to measure the grammaticalization of spatial expressions in Old Hittite, Vedic Sanskrit, Homeric Greek, Latin, Umbrian, and Tocharian.
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Preliminary thoughts and observations on the sources and constitution of the Zoroastrian Middle P... more Preliminary thoughts and observations on the sources and constitution of the Zoroastrian Middle Persian meta-liturgical terminology. Developed during corpus preparation for the MPCD project (Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Corpus and Dictionary). Basis for a more large-scale study and impulse for upcoming lexicographical work in MPCD.
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Talk given at the Webinar on Iranian Studies, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages, Univer... more Talk given at the Webinar on Iranian Studies, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages, University of Tehran, January 21, 2021
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Talk given at the 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Berlin, September 9–13, 2019. Publi... more Talk given at the 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Berlin, September 9–13, 2019. Published as chapter 23 of monograph "The first three hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā" (Brill 2022).
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Talk given at the Annual Seminar of the World Zoroastrian Organisation, London, June 17, 2018
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Talk given at the University of Cologne, April 20, 2018
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Talk given at the University of Cologne, April 19, 2018
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Extended handout of a paper presented at the IG/SIG Conference in Verona, October 2017
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Talk given at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag (Sektion Indogermanistik / Indo-European Studie... more Talk given at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag (Sektion Indogermanistik / Indo-European Studies), Jena, September 18–22, 2017. I have not yet had a chance to fill in the gaps that remain in the philological data underlying the paper. This piece of research is therefore still awaiting completion.
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Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaea... more Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, Torino, September 11–15, 2017
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Talk given at the Corpus Avesticum Meeting, Berlin, March 23–24, 2017. With an excursus on umlaut... more Talk given at the Corpus Avesticum Meeting, Berlin, March 23–24, 2017. With an excursus on umlaut in Bactrian.
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Paper presented at the 15th Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Vienna, Septembe... more Paper presented at the 15th Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Vienna, September 13–16, 2016
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Talk given at the workshop "Rencontre avestologique: Phonetics and Phonology in Avestan and Beyon... more Talk given at the workshop "Rencontre avestologique: Phonetics and Phonology in Avestan and Beyond", Paris, April 25–26, 2016
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Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, March 18–21, 2016
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Kratylos, 2018
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Indo-Iranian Journal, 2017
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