Metaphorizing the metaphors: The development of the Zoroastrian language of eschatology (A04)

该项目聚焦于琐罗亚斯德教的末世论，提出了一个问题，即宗教意义的构建在多大程度上依赖于对现有隐喻的转化，而不是全新隐喻的产生。通过这样做，它将对正在进行的关于琐罗亚斯德教和其他欧亚宗教历史中末世论思想发展的辩论做出根本性的贡献，特别是对犹太教、基督教或伊斯兰教传统中琐罗亚斯德教末世论思想的吸收的讨论。为此，该项目将调查从公元前12世纪到公元17世纪的琐罗亚斯德教文学的五个历史层面。

Focusing on Zoroastrian eschatology, this project asks, to what extent the construction of reli-gious meaning relies on the transformation of existing metaphors rather than the production of entirely new ones. By doing so, it will make a fundamental contribution to the ongoing debate on the development of eschatological ideas in Zoroastrianism and the history of other Eurasian reli-gions, particularly, to the discussion on the absorption of Zoroastrian eschatological ideas in Jewish, Christian, or Islamic traditions. To that end, the project will investigate five historical lay-ers of Zoroastrian literature from 12th cent. BCE to 17th cent. AD.