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is somewhat out of date and the latter suffers from relying on the
French translation of Mas'iid"i.
J. Duchesne-Guillemin's Ohrmazd et Ahriman (Paris, 1953) elab-
orates Henning's suggestion that dualism developed in reaction to the
problem of theodicy raised by monotheism. On the other supernatural
beings and concepts, see B. Geiger's Die Amasa Spgntas (Vienna,
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. Texts containing the Mazdaean point of view regarding destiny are
collected by J. C. Tavadia in "Pahlavi Passages on Fate and Free Will,"
ZII 8 (1931): 119-32. The Zurvanite myth as told by Y6l).annan bar
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translations. The debate provoked by Zaehner's Zurvan: A Zoroas-
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