Almut Hintze

Almut Hintze is Professor of ZoroastrianismZoroastrianismIranian religious tradition associated with Zoroaster, with changing texts and conceptions of goodness, evil and endings.Glossary · Click to read the explanation at SOAS, University of London. She studies Avestan texts, language and ritualsRitualAn organised or distinguished practice meaningful to a community; it may leave traces, but its form alone does not reveal an associated doctrine.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, including relations between oral performance and written transmission. Her work includes editions and translations of Yasht 19 and an Encyclopaedia Iranica entry on the Yashts. It helps distinguish a tradition’s history from the date of a surviving manuscript. ^[1]