The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1837 - 1918), who published as L. H. Mills, was Professor of the Persian language at Oxford University. In 1887, Mills translated a portion of the Avestan language texts of the Avesta into English. The table of contents for Avesta Eeschatology Compared with the Books of Daniel and Revelations includes Literary and Historical Connection between the Avesta and the Exilie Semetic The conception of God and the terminology used, Scriptures, Angelology with demonology, The concept of eternity in General, Resurrection, The judgment in Daniel and the exilic and post-exilic theology in general, Zoroastrainism in its distinctive characteristics, and God and his immortals.
2020 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This is a monumental study of the Zoroastrian Gâthâs by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1837 1918), Professor of Zend Philology at the University of Oxford and one of the great Victorian scholars of Zoroastrianism. Mills had previously published a simple translation of the Gathas in Max Muller's Sacred Books of the East series (Vol. 31, The Zend Avesta, Part III, 1887). In this ground-breaking volume he published the Avestan text in both original script and transliteration, a translation into Latin and free translation in English verse, a transliteration of the Pahlavi text and its English translation (the first translation of the complete text into a European language), a transliteration of the Sanskrit text of Neryosangh with the first ever English translation, a Parsi-Persian version of the text in transliteration (not translated), together with a commentary and copious notes. Contains texts and translations, also with the Pahlavi translation, for the first time edited with collation of manuscripts, and now prepared from all the known codices, also deciphered, and for the first time translated in its entirety into a European language, with Neryosangh's Sanskrit text edited, with a first translation, also with the Persian text contained in codex 12b of the Munich collection edited in transliteration, together with a commentary, being the literary apparatus and argument to the translation of the Gâthâs in the XXXIst volume of the Sacred books of the East, by Lawrence H. Mills, D.D. Parts I-IV, Yasna XXVIII-XXXIV, XLIII-L, LI, LIII; Comm.
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