Martin Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies in the Department of NearEastern Studies at the Universityof California at Berkeley. His chief teaching and research activity is in Pre-Islamic Iranian/Central Asiatic languages, literatures, and religions. To this he brings a knowledge of Indo-Iranian (including Vedic) and Indo-European historical linguistics and languages of the Near East. His focal interest on the poetic, intellectual and spiritual world of
the Gathas of Zoroaster, whose esoteric dimension and complex compositional structures he has discovered. He has been an invited lecturer on this subject at many acadmic institutions, including the Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Freie Universiaet, Berlin, the and most recently (May, 2008) at the College de France, Paris, with further invited lectures at the University of Bonn and Arya
University, Yerevan. A portion of an invited lecture on the Gathas which he gave in Bucarest is viewable on the internet under "Martin Schwartz" + YouTube. I addition, he has co-authored a book, Haoma and Harmaline, a multidisciplinary identification of the psychotropic plant which underlay an important aspect of Indo-Iranian Religion. He has also authored many articles of various aspects of Iranian Studies, as well as seminal and influential articles on cultural Interactions in Late Antiquity and the early medieval period. His work on the history of magical texts includes including a demonstration of how an obscure
divinity attested three an a half millennia ago in Syria, whose myth he
has reconstructed, developed as a magical divinity in the Phoenician,
Aramean, Hellenistic, Jewish, Byzantine, and Zoroastrian worlds, and
still figures in a triple angelic form in Jewish amulets protecting
childbirth, a project which has solved problems in several independent
fields of scholarship.

see website above for pdfs Apollo and Khshathrapati, the Median Nergal, at Xanthos Revelations, Theology, and Poetics in the Gathas More on harkÇ and *harkapati The Etymology of Arabic xarāj, Revisited Women in the Old Avesta: Social Postion and Textual Composition; In memoriam Mary Boyce and Mary Douglas Kirder's Clairvoyants: Extra-Iranian and Gathic Perspectives From Healer to Hyle: Levantine Iconography as Manichean Mythology On Haoma and its Liturgy in the Gathas Qumran, Turfan, Arabic Magic, and Noah's Name Sasm, Sesen, St. Sisinnios, Sesengen Barpharanges, and ... "Semanglof" Encryptions in the Gathas: Zarathushrta's Variations on the Theme of Bliss How Zarathushtra Generated the Gathic Corpus: Inner-textual and Intertextual Composition Pouruchista’s Gathic Wedding and the Teleological Composition of the Gathas Bibliography of Articles Article Notes

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Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, UC Berkeley