Word: persia
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...queers the pitch by muttering something about a navigational device he calls an "astrolobe." Horst Bucholz, who plays the acrobattling hero, obviously doesn't have the thighs for this sort of work, but he makes up for that with some of the niftiest karate ever seen in medieval Persia and in general upholds his hard-earned reputation as the German Tony Curtis...
Self-sufficiency and mutual aid are key elements of Zoroastrianism, a faith whose origin and even basic tenets are obscured in mystery. Although some devout Parsis claim that Zoroaster was born about 6000 B.C., most Western scholars agree that he lived and taught in Persia during the 6th century B.C.-an era of religious (lowering that also saw the birth of Buddha and Confucius and the revival of Judaism after its Babylonian exile...
...Parsi tradition, Zoroaster was assassinated at the age of 77 by an unbeliever while worshiping at a fire temple. Within a century after his death, his teachings seem to have been accepted as the state religion by the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes. Although the faith was driven underground after Persia's conquest by Alexander the Great, Zoroastrian ideas circulated widely in the Middle East. Almost certainly the magi who came to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus were Zoroastrians, and many scholars believe that echoes of Zoroastrian theology can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Revived by the Sassanid...
Minorities continued to be an issue of some embarrassment as the Iranian representative at the seminar, after alluding to the magnificent manner in "which Persia had treated her minorities for centuries was asked about the treatment the Bahai's had recently received. The explanation was that this was a political question which did not indicate that Iran had difficulty integrating its minorities...
...into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud, in contrast to the Palestinian Talmud, a similar but less authoritative Gemara done a century earlier by rabbis in Palestine. Although Jews since the 10th century have followed the Babylonian Talmud, the United Synagogue's translation will include...