Composition and oral transmission of the Avesta
Invited talk: P. O. Skjaervø (Harvard University): Composition and non-literate transmission of the Avesta: Questions to be asked and tentative answers
Communications
E. Pirart: "La métrique et l'histoire de l'Avesta"
Y. Vevaina: Questions of transmission and agency in the Pahlavi commentaries on the Old Avesta
The invention of the Avesta script
Invited talk: Carlo Cereti (La Sapienza, Rome): The Pahlavi cursive and the invention of the Avestan script
Communications:
A. Panaino: The Age of the Avestan Canon
Y. Elman: Fifth Century Zoroastrian and Rabbinic Discussions of the Parameters of Impurity
D. Shapira: Notes on Script, Corpus and Sacred Language
From the invention of the script to the first manuscripts preserved
Invited talk: J. Kellens (Collège de France)
Communications:
The manuscripts
Presentation of collections:
- F. Kotwal (Meherji-rana Library, Nawsari, India)
- K. M. JamaspAsa (Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay, India)
- U. Sims-Williams (British Library)
New discovered manuscripts:
- F. Jahanpour (University of Mashad)
Editing the Avesta
Invited talk: A. Hintze (School of Oriental and African Languages, London): Editing the Avesta
Communications:
Transmission and editions of other Zoroastrian texts
Invited talk: M. Macuch (Freie Universität, Berlin): Editing Pahlavi Texts: Difficulties and Future Tasks