Publications
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Project Publications
Jügel, Thomas. 2025. Wizīdagīhā ī zādspram according to the manuscript TD4a. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD.
Jügel, Thomas. 2025. Wizīdagīhā ī zādspram according to the manuscript K35. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD.
Jügel, Thomas. 2025. Dādestān ī dēnīg Part 1 according to the manuscript K35. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/fd02fe4f-62ea-4af6-8312-0d3ceb1c1872.
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2024. Zoroastrianism in Early Islamic period: its participation in ʿAbbāsid theological-philosophical discourse and its absence in the transmission of Sasanian culture. In Stefan Heidemann & Katharina Mewes (eds.), The reach of empire – the Early Islamic Empire at work (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 37), vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Jügel, Thomas. 2024. Greater Bundahišn according to the manuscript TD2. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum - Berlin - Köln: MPCD.
Jügel, Thomas. 2024. Greater Bundahišn according to the manuscript TD1. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD.
Musavi, Raha. 2024. Zand ī wahman yasn according to the manuscript K43a Morphological, syntactic, and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum - Berlin - Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/616165b7-609a-493e-90a0-1a45a474dc13.
Musavi, Raha. 2024. Zand ī wahman yasn according to the manuscript K20 Morphological, syntactic, and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum - Berlin - Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/1419eaaf-17f1-4ca8-a2e9-207ae0fa21c1.
Cantera, Alberto. 2024. The passive suffix -ī̆h- in Middle Persian. In Deciphering the illegible. Festschrift in honour of Dieter Weber (Iranica 33), 43–50. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2024. Traces of textual fluidity in the Zand: extracts from the Pahlavi Yasna in the old Pahlavi codex K20. Estudios Iranios y Turanios 6. 229–243.
Musavi, S. Fatemeh. 2024. The Avestan ī̆šti- in Middle Persian texts. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies First View, pp. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000611.
Colditz, Iris. 2024. Colophon following the Riwāyat of farrbaysrōš partially annotated according to the manuscript TD2. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/f36ce406-5c69-4c28-9880-7db3dd8a4c06.
Colditz, Iris. 2024. Riwāyat of Thirty questions and answers partially annotated according to the manuscript TD2. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/8f175a1a-9579-42d8-aadf-4d6341dedbdb.
Colditz, Iris. 2024. Riwāyat of farrbaysrōš partially annotated according to the manuscript TD2. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/84b66a2e-69ba-4b87-8aed-b632c23ea7a5.
Colditz, Iris. 2024. Riwāyat of ādurfarnbay partially annotated according to the manuscript TD2. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/084aedd7-181e-4a52-8d84-aff3b5be7ef8.
Jügel, Thomas. 2024. Greater Bundahišn according to the manuscript DH. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum - Berlin - Köln: MPCD.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. The interpretatio iranica of heterograms in Book Pahlavi: the case of YTYBWN- “to sit down, to dwell and to set” and some related problems. Estudios Iranios y Turanios 5. 7–22.
Colditz, Iris. 2023. Nāmagīhā ī manuščihr, partially annotated according to the manuscript TD4a. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/4e336847-7e8a-4b96-aaff-56b3d5aa856d.
Jügel, Thomas. 2023. Dēnkard V according to the manuscript B. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum - Berlin - Köln: MPCD.
Colditz, Iris. 2023. Nāmagīhā ī manuščihr partially annotated according to the manuscript K35. Morphosyntactic and semantic annotation with working translation. Bochum – Berlin – Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/114a48d8-b46b-45ff-bed2-7dbf02c10a2c.
Colditz, Iris. 2023. Landesrecht vs. lokales Recht? Fragen an das sasanidische Rechtsbuch Hazār Dādestān und Forschungsperspektiven eines digitalen Korpus und Wörterbuchs des Zoroastrisch-Mittelpersischen. Sasanian Studies 2. 27–40.
Mondaca, Francisco, Kianoosh Rezania, Slavomír Čéplö & Claes Neuefeind. 2023. Towards a Comprehensive Dictionary of Middle Persian. In Marek Medveď, Michal Měchura, Carole Tiberius, Iztok Kosem, Jelena Kallas, Miloš Jakubíček & Simon Krek (eds.), Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2023): Invisible Lexicography. Proceedings of the eLex 2023 conference. Brno, 27–29 June 2023, 220–35. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o. https://elex.link/elex2023/wp-content/uploads/61.pdf.
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2023. On the concept of leadership and the office of Leader of the Zoroastrians (hu-dēnān pēšōbāy) in Abbasid Zoroastrianism. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000829.
Colditz, Iris. 2022. Non-Zoroastrians in Zoroastrian law. The Sasanian Law Book in comparison to later Pahlavi texts. In Gunner B. Mikkelsen & Ken Parry (eds.), Byzantium to China: religion, history and culture on the Silk Roads. Studies in Honour of Samuel N. C. Lieu at seventy (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 25), 81–114. Leiden – Boston: Brill.
Musavi, Raha. 2022. Gizistag Abāliš according to the manuscript K20 Morphosyntactic, and semantic annotation with a working translation. Bochum - Berlin - Köln: MPCD. https://www.mpcorpus.org/corpus/sections/b6c43314-2833-45fb-870e-25389b90029b.
Related Publications
Preliminary Publications
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2020. A suggestion for the transliteration of Middle Persian texts in Zoroastrian Middle Persian. (Ed.) Alberto Cantera & Juanjo Ferrer-Losilla. Estudios Iranios y Turanios 4. 157–177.
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2020. ‘Religion’ in Late Antique Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. Developing a term in counterpoint. Entangled Religions 11(2). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.13154/er.11.2020.8556.
Jügel, Thomas. 2020. The perfect in Middle and New Iranian languages. In Robert Crellin & Thomas Jügel (eds.), Perfects in Indo-European and Beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 352), 279–309. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Colditz, Iris. 2019. Women without guardianship. In Pavel Lurje (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies. Held on 14–19 Sep. 2015 at the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, in St Petersburg. Volume 1: Studies on pre-Islamic Iran and Historical Linguistics, 106–116. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers.
Jügel, Thomas. 2019. The development of the object marker in Middle Persian. In Pavel Lurje (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies. Held on 14–19 Sep. 2015 at the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, in St Petersburg. Volume 1: Studies on pre-Islamic Iran and Historical Linguistics, 203–219. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers.
Colditz, Iris. 2019. Eine vergessene zoroastrische Märtyrerin? In Almut Hintze, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst & Claudius Naumann (eds.), A thousand judgements. Festschrift for Maria Macuch, 51–70. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Jügel, Thomas. 2018. The aramaeogram of the copula in Zoroastrian Middle Persian and a note on the 2sg. optative. Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) 5. 36–41.
Eide, Øyvind & Christian-Emil Ore. 2018. Ontologies and data modeling. In Julia Flanders (ed.), The shape of data in Digital Humanities: modeling texts and text-based resources, 178–203. London – New York: Routledge.
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2017. Dēnkard in its Islamic context. Der Islam 94(2). 336–362.
Colditz, Iris. 2017. Pahlavi bahr „Anteil“ oder „Brautgabe“? Zum Verständnis einer terminologischen Unschärfe in den Riwāyats zum Dādestān ī dēnīg. In Iris Colditz, Benjamin Jokisch & Maria Macuch (eds.), Transferprozesse in spätantiken Rechtssystemen. Rezeption, Transformation und Rekontextualisierung von Rechtsbegriffen (Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte 10), 7–30. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Colditz, Iris. 2017. Another fragment of the ‘Parable on the female Hearer Xybrʾ’? With an appendix on Zoroastrian marriage and funeral customs. In Enrico Morano, Elio Provasi & Adriano Valerio Rossi (eds.), Studia Philologica Iranica. Gherardo Gnoli Memorial Volume (Serie Orientale Roma, Nuova Serie 5), 63–78. Roma: Scienze e Lettere.
Jügel, Thomas. 2016. Enclitic pronouns in Middle Persian and the placeholder construction. Quaterly Journal of Language and Inscription 41–61.
Jügel, Thomas. 2015. Die Entwicklung der Ergativkonstruktion im Alt- und Mitteliranischen: eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung zu Kasus, Kongruenz und Satzbau (Iranica 21). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Jügel, Thomas. 2014. Review of Durkin-Meisterernst 2014 Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77(3). 598–600.
Eide, Øyvind. 2014. Review of Granger & Paquot (eds.) 2012, Electronic lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography 27(2). 180–191.
Jügel, Thomas. 2013. The verbal particle BE in Middle Persian. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 67. 29–56.
Jügel, Thomas. 2010. Konkordanz der Kirdīr-Inschriften. https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/tjuegel/kirdir.pdf. (5 January, 2022).
Cantera, Alberto. 2006. Beiträge zur Pahlavi-Lexikographie. Orientalia Suecana 55. 17–40.
Cantera, Alberto. 2004. Studien zur Pahlavi-Übersetzung des Avesta (Iranica 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Cantera, Alberto. 2003. Phl. xwaddōšagīh und die Unterwerfung unter die Autorität im (nach)sasanidischen Zoroastrismus. In Carlo Giovanni Cereti, Mauro Maggi & Elio Provasi (eds.), Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia: Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6 December 2002 (Beiträge zur Iranistik 24), 17–30. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
Presentations
Colditz, Iris, Thomas Jügel & Raha Musavi. 2025. Middle Persian Corpus & Dictionary Project (MPCD): a corpus-based digital dictionary. Poster presentation presented at the Digital Humanities Day #7. Digitale Ethik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. https://dhday.rub.de/poster_2025MPCD.html.
Colditz, Iris. 2025. MPCD Dictionary: “Structure, Tools, Challenges. Presentation of the Dictionary (Working Surface and Functions). Presented at the MPCD Workshop “Towards a Comprehensive Middle Persian Dictionary II,” Bochum.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2024. Approaching Dēnkard 8 through its textures and terminology. Presented at the A spark of the glimmer of the original light: a workshop on the Dēnkard as literature, theology, and scholasticism, University of Oxford.
Rezania, Kianoosh & Ted Good. 2024. From unlimited to limited: the concept of time in the Greater Bundahišn and Dēnkard III. Presented at the A spark of the glimmer of the original light: a workshop on the Dēnkard as literature, theology, and scholasticism, University of Oxford.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2024. Xwārīh ud āsānīh ud nēkīh pad wahišt: circumscribing states of bliss in Zoroastrian eschatological language. Presented at the Workshop „The Final Frontier: Unveiling the Language of Eschatology“, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Jügel, Thomas. 2024. Universal Dependencies standard for Middle Persian. Presented at the Studies on the vocabulary of the Buddhist Sogdian, Berlin.
Colditz, Iris. 2024. On Chinese loanwords in Middle Persian. Presented at the Indiana University Symposium Attested Middle Chinese in Central Eurasian Transcriptions and Loanwords II, Indiana University Europe Gateway Berlin.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2024. Traces of textual fluidity in the Zand. Presented at the Colloque international “Autour de Zaraϑuštra,” Université de Strasbourg.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2023. The Zand of the Visperad: traditional material in a late redaction? Presented at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University.
Jügel, Thomas. 2023. Syntactic variation in the Middle Persian Bundahišn. Presented at the 10. European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University.
Musavi, Raha. 2023. In search of linguistic layers in Zand ī Wahman Yasn. Presented at the 10. European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University.
Colditz, Iris. 2023. Theological argumentation, linguistic expressions, and style in the second Epistle of Manuščihr. Presented at the 10. European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University.
Čéplö, Slavomír & Thomas Jügel. 2023. Identification of metrical text in Middle Persian – a pilot study. Poster presentation presented at the DH Day #5 - Nachhaltige DH in Forschung und Lehre, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. https://dhday.rub.de/papers.html?filter=keywords.
Colditz, Iris. 2023. The MPCD Project: Selected Problems in the Corpus Preparation. Termini technici & Realia; Taxonomy. Presented at the MPCD Workshop “Towards a Comprehensive Middle Persian Dictionary,” Köln.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2022. Zoroastrian Middle Persian literature and the Avesta: current research perspectives. Presented at the 2022 Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism Conference, online event.
Colditz, Iris. 2022. How a Zoroastrian priest argues astronomical tables. Presented at the Konferenz “Law, Religion and Sciences – rules, norms, and the transfer of knowledge in ancient to medieval traditions,” Tübingen.
Mondaca, Francisco, Moritz Eßer & Claes Neuefeind. 2022. MPCD: an API-based research environment. Presented at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.
Jügel, Thomas. 2022. Syntactic ambiguity in Middle Persian – a quantitative approach. Presented at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.
Colditz, Iris. 2022. Landesrecht vs. lokales Recht? Fragen an das sasanidische Rechtsbuch Hazār Dādestān und Forschungsperspektiven eines digitalen Korpus und Wörterbuchs des Zoroastrisch-Mittelpersischen. Presented at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2022. The formation of a Zoroastrian Middle Persian meta-liturgical terminology. Presented at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.
Rezania, Kianoosh. 2022. Das zweifelhafte Ritual im zoroastrischen Ritualrecht: eine Kategorie zwischen den validen und invaliden Ritualen. Presented at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.
Cantera, Alberto, Iris Colditz, Thomas Jügel, Claes Neuefeind, Benedikt Peschl & Kianoosh Rezania. 2022. Middle Persian Corpus and Dictionary (MPCD). Presented at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.
Neuefeind, Claes, Francisco Mondaca, Øyvind Eide, Iris Colditz, Thomas Jügel, Kianoosh Rezania, Alberto Cantera & Chagai Emanuel. 2022. Introducing MPCD – Middle Persian Corpus and Dictionary. Tokyo (online). https://dh2022.adho.org/program/presentations.
Related Presentations
Cantera, Alberto. 2024. Blessed with the bliss of Aṣ̌a: reassessing aṣ̌auuan- and aṣ̌a- in Young Avestan. Presented at the Workshop „The Final Frontier: Unveiling the Language of Eschatology“, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Colditz, Iris. 2024. Terminological pecularities of a Sogdian Mahāyāna-Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra version in pustaka format. Presented at the Workshop on the project „Studies on the vocabulary of the Buddhist Sogdian text fragments from the Turfan oasis“, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin.
Cantera, Alberto. 2024. You, Ahurāni. Presented at the Colloque international “Autour de Zaraϑuštra,” Université de Strasbourg.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. Ritual and revelation: understanding the dēn (9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures at Oxford University – Lecture 6). University of Oxford.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. Mountains, palaces and temples: ritual space and ritual practice (9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures at Oxford University – Lecture 5). University of Oxford.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. The main liturgy: the Yasna and its variants (9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures at Oxford University – Lecture 4). University of Oxford.
Jügel, Thomas. 2023. From Middle to New Persian: How many languages? Presented at the Linguistics of Western Asia: Methods in the Study of Convergence, Cambridge, UK.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. Again on the Visperad. Presented at the 10. European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. The ritual system: modularity and productivity (9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures at Oxford University – Lecture 3). University of Oxford.
Jügel, Thomas. 2023. Aspects of light in the Bundahišn – a Zoroastrian encyclopedia from Early Islamic times. Presented at the Workshop “Explorations of Metaphors of Light in Religions on the Eurasian Continent,” CERES. Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Colditz, Iris. 2023. Light Metaphors in Manichaeism. Presented at the Workshop “Explorations of Metaphors of Light in Religions on the Eurasian Continent,” CERES. Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. The questioned antiquity of the Zoroastrian rituals: their reception in Western academia (9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures at Oxford University – Lecture 2). University of Oxford.
Cantera, Alberto. 2023. Manuscripts and rituals: the written transmission of the Zoroastrian rituals (9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures at Oxford University – Lecture 1). University of Oxford.
Timuş, Mihaela. 2022. About problematic aspects in some chapters of the Dēnkard 3. Presented at the Lunchbox Lecture, CERES. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/lunchbox-lecture-mpcd/.
Colditz, Iris. 2022. A passage on a Manichaean ethical principle and related texts. Presented at the Tenth Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies, Aarhus University.
Peschl, Benedikt & Francesco Barchi. 2022. Preterite formations in Niya Prakrit and Khotanese: a case of substratum interference. Presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford. https://ichl.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/abstracts/128.
Peschl, Benedikt. 2022. Devatā dvandvas in Middle Iranian onomastics and the Bactrian personal name Mihrāmā̆n. Presented at the Workshop “Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond,” Leiden University. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022/06/tocharian-and-iranian-in-the-tarim-basin-and-beyond.
Agostini, Domenico. 2022. Reassessing the Zoroastrian apocalypse between history and eschatology. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. https://ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/lunchbox-lecture-mpcd-14-06-2022/.
Jügel, Thomas. 2022. Tense in time – The development of Iranic verbal categories and the difficulty of naming them. Presented at the The Philological Society, UK (online). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyKCrX2cDQ.
Kłagisz, Mateusz. 2021. In search of a bizarre multi-limb creature. Zoroastrian and Islamic insight into agricultural beliefs in the Iranian world. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. https://ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/vortrag-von-mateuz-klagisz/.
Jügel, Thomas. 2021. Observations regarding the use of enclitic pronouns in Middle Persian. Presented at the The Linguistics Association of the University of Kurdistan, Iran (online). https://twitter.com/linguok/status/1455172880283717638.
