The Zarathushtra Gâthâs and the origins of Mazdaism (3)

History of Gâthâ studies: after 1991, in the wake of earlier studies conducted between 1954 and 1985 by Wolfgang Lentz and Hanns-Peter Schmidt, the debate focused mainly on the mode of composition of the Gâthâs and their primitive function (Almut Hintze, Stephanie Jamison, Martin Schwartz, Jean Kellens).