Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Iranian Jewry in late antiquity
Pourshariati’s new article appears in Sarshar (2014). I have already posted the bibliographic note for the volume, but want to highlight this article separately, as it relates to late antiquity: Pourshariati, Parvaneh. 2014. New vistas on the history of Iranian Jewry in late antiquity, Part I: Patterns of Jewish settlement in Iran. In Houman Sarshar
The rise of Christianity in Iran
Payne, Richard. 2014. The Rise of Christianity in Iran. News and Notes 223. 2–7. Read the article here.
On the linguistic history of Kurdish
Jügel, Thomas. 2014. On the linguistic history of Kurdish. Kurdish Studies 2(2). 123–142. Historical linguistic sources of Kurdish date back just a few hundred years, thus it is not possible to track the profound grammatical changes of Western Iranian languages in Kurdish. Through a comparison with attested languages of the Middle Iranian period, this paper
A note on the Schøyen copper scroll
de la Vaissière, Étienne. 2012 [2007]. A note on the Schøyen copper scroll: Bactrian or Indian? Bulletin of the Asia Institute 21. 127–130. Find the article here.
Review: The millennial sovereign
Truschke, Audrey. 2014. Review of Afzar Moin: The millennial sovereign: Sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam. New York: Columbia University Press. International Journal of Middle East Studies 46. 809–842. The Millennial Sovereign recovers a shared world of sacred kingship that pervaded India, Iran, and Central Asia in early modernity. A. Azfar Moin argues that a
The reinvention of Iran
Payne, Richard. 2014. The reinvention of Iran: The Sasanian Empire and the Huns. In Michael Maas (ed.), The Cambridge companion to the age of Attila, 282–299. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Find the article here.