Ebook: A Sogdian God

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 28,No. 2 (1965), pp. 13 (242-254)The argument to be presented here proceeds from the analysis of a Sogdian word of uncertain orthography and disputed meaning. It first occurred, as bγ'/npšqty 1 (apparently with word-division),2 in Soghd. Texte, I, 39.4, in a translation of Luke xii, 36, corresponding with Syriac bēθ meštūθā = (ἐκ) των γἀμων.