The Book Of Gizistag Abalish: A Pahlavi Student's 2013 Guide

Self-Pahlavi student Zeke Kassock has created a modern rendition of the Pahlavi book Gizistag Abalish, for the beginner Pahlavi student, as well as the Zoroastrian reader. Kassock has hand written the original text, and modernized the spelling with D.N. MacKenzie's A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary. It was then typed, retranscribed and translated using MacKenzie's dictionary, giving it new life from the editions from Barthelemy and Chacha. This rendition was created for the student learning Pahlavi/Middle Persian in aiding them in starting to read the original manuscript. It is presented in Pahlavi script, along with transcription in English letters and English translation. Gizistag Abalish is about a heretic named Abalish who decides to have a dispute with sages from other religions. He asks them a series of seven questions, and they reply with clear answers, and end up winning the debate. This version includes the Pahlavi student guide that Kassock wrote, as well as the editions from A. Barthelemy (1887) and Homi F. Chacha (1936). Read more