On this see his fascinating essay, ‘Some notes on Ahriman, the evil spirit, and his creation’, reprinted in a collection of his essays entitled From Zoroastrian Iran to Islam: Studies in Religious History and Intercultural Contacts (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1995). We are also very indebted to Shaul Shaked's exposition of certain aspects of the teachings in the texts, particularly with respect to the esoteric doctrine (of some of them) concerning the ‘nonexistence’ of Angra Mainyu. We have profited much from his careful, serious, and learned exposition of these texts. Zaehner's Dawn and Twilight devotes five long chapters to explicating the high theology of the Pahlavi texts in considerable detail.
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