Home›Sources›Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)SourcesMary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)Routledge and Kegan PaulCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/boyce-zoroastrians-religious-beliefs-practices-1979.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/boyce-zoroastrians-religious-beliefs-practices-1979Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-mary-boyce-zoroastrians-their-religious, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/boyce-zoroastrians-religious-beliefs-practices-1979}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXMary Boyce's standard academic study of Zoroastrianism traces the religion's continuous history from Zoroaster to the present, and identifies Neryosang Dhaval as a Parsi priestly scholar of the late eleventh or early twelfth century whose Sanskrit renderings of Middle Persian texts, Boyce writes, show an admirable extensive knowledge of both languages and mark one of the peaks of Parsi scholarship.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (15 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1The standard academic study of Zoroastrianism by its leading twentieth century scholar, tier 1, matching the tier the map already gives its other foundational academic references, used here for Neryosang Dhaval's dating and the scholarly assessment of his translation work, corroborated by Wikipedia's account of the alternate dating below.NotesWell-attestedUsed for Neryosang Dhaval's late eleventh or early twelfth century dating and Boyce's assessment of his Sanskrit translation work.CitationAuthorWell-attestedMary BoycePublisherWell-attestedRoutledge and Kegan PaulURLWell-attestedhttps://archive.org/details/zoroastriansthei0000boycSource TypeWell-attestedacademic monographCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithMiddle Persian, Languages Well-attested This source names Middle Persian directly: "century whose Sanskrit renderings of Middle Persian texts, Boyce writes, show an admirable extensive knowledge of both languages and mark one of the peaks of Parsi scholarship."Source Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)Mary Boycetier 1Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.Spread Events, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested10SourcesMary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)Spread EventsNeryosang Dhaval Translates Zoroastrian Scripture into SanskritHolds4SourcesMary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)Spread EventsNeryosang Dhaval Translates Zoroastrian Scripture into SanskritGeneral References1Spread EventsNeryosang Dhaval Translates Zoroastrian Scripture into SanskritComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year