The designation Zend-Avesta, which is often employed to denote the sacred code, is not strictly correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Another book called the Avesta, written by a Persian named Zoroaster, is also extremely influential in the Middle East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind?] Reference

"Avesta" denotes (perhaps literally) knowledge, being cognate with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference

The exact meaning of the name "Avesta" is not certain; it may perhaps signify "law," "text," or, more doubtfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference

4 verses, two of 7+5 and two of 7+5+5 syllables, called Avesta in short, is the prayer-book of Zoroastrians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

It is in the Zend-Avesta, primal Japhetic utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

Thanks Avesta - lemon vodka goes well in this float!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandarin Sorbet Float] Reference

The Iranian tradition, preserved in the Avesta and in Firdousi's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

I know -- let's make everyone swear themselves in on the Avesta!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Win Dennis Hastert's House Seat!] Reference

“We have taken up weapons only to defend ourselves,” said Avesta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Kurds Back PKK Despite Hardships] Reference

In fact, there are in the Gāthās of the Avesta indications of a pro - found transformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

No one in eighteenth-century Europe could translate the language in which the Avesta was written.    From Wordnik.com.  [DESPOTISM] Reference

Zoroastrianism is ably treated by Darmesteter in the Introduction to his translation of the "Zend Avesta.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

Cyrus the Great brought peace to the area by rising above the religious issue and saw in the humanitarian ways of the Zend-Avesta.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain and Obama sound bites vs Torquemadas in Iran] Reference

In the Zend-Avesta the same word daêva means evil spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

CARPERS FARM WAY, 1226-Majid Avesta to Vanita and Nathan R.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairfax County home sales] Reference

Zend-Avesta, were those of a bold adventurer -- not of a scholar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

Avesta, it is richer in forms than the later Parsi, the Deri, or the language of Firdusi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

'Huzvaresh,' this being the proper title of the language of the translations of the Avesta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

The Greeks and Romans had it, and even the language of the Avesta showed clear traces of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference