SOURCE: “Iconoclasm among the Zoroastrians” in Christianity, Judaism, and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part Four, edited by Jacob Neusner, E. J. Brill, 1975, pp. 93-111.
In the essay below, Boyce examines the way in which the veneration of fire, which served an important role in Zoroaster's teachings, was transformed by his followers to a ritual temple cult.
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