Rose, "Zoroaster vii. As Perceived by Later Zoroastrians," Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2009

An article in Encyclopaedia Iranica, the field's standard scholarly reference work for Iranian and Zoroastrian studies, maintained by the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University, written by Jenny Rose, a historian of religions specializing in Zoroastrian studies at Claremont Graduate University with a doctorate in Ancient Iranian Studies from Columbia. The article traces how later Zoroastrians have imagined and depicted Zoroaster, including the disagreement within the tradition over whether he is best understood as an enlightened mortal philosopher or a being with supernatural, semi divine standing, the same disagreement On Wings of Fire's screenplay was accused of resolving in the wrong direction. Its strength is authorship by a specialist scholar in a peer reviewed academic reference work. Its limit is that its full text sits behind a publisher access wall, so it is cited here for the existence and general content of the scholarly treatment, corroborated through Wikipedia's own bibliography, rather than for an exact quotation.