Martin Schwartz

Martin Schwartz was Professor of Near Eastern Studies from 1970 to 2011

Below is a publication list updated to the end of 2023.

  1. Schwartz, Martin. 1961. S. Davis’ “Acrophonic” Ideograms in Linear A and B. Classical Philology. University of Chicago Press 56(4). 254–256.
  2. Schwartz, Martin. 1966. Iranian Draw- “To Lead Astray.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3(4). 119–122.
  3. Schwartz, Martin. 1967. Some Sogdian Nouns. Phi Theta Papers 10. 1–3.
  4. Schwartz, Martin. 1967. Studies in the texts of the Sogdian Christians. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. dissertation. [revised version circulated 1982 and cited by some but unpublished]
  5. Schwartz, Martin. 1968. W. B. Henning 1908-1967. Indo-Iranian Journal 10(4). 308–313.
  6. Schwartz, Martin. 1969. Review of Indo-Scythian Studies, being Khotanese Texts, Vol. VI: Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta. Journal of the American Oriental Society 89(2). 444–447.
  7. Schwartz, Martin. 1970. On the Vocabulary of the Khwarezmian Muqaddimatu l-Adab, as edited by J. Benzing. Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 120. 288–304.
  8. Schwartz, Martin. 1971. Review of The “Sūtra of the Causes and Effects of Actions” in Sogdian. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 34(2). 411–415.
  9. Schwartz, Martin. 1974. Sogdian fragments of the Book of Psalms. Altorientalische Forschungen 1. 257–261.
  10. Schwartz, Martin. 1980. Review of Iranisches Personennamenbuch. Band I: Die altiranischen Namen. Faszikel 1: Die avestischen Namen. Orientalia 49(1). 123–126.
  11. Schwartz, Martin. 1982. ‘Blood’ in Sogdian and Old Iranian. In Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne (Acta Iranica 22), vol. 2, 189–196. Leiden: Brill.
  12. Schwartz, Martin. 1982. The Indo-European Vocabulary of Exchange, Hospitality, and Intimacy (The Origins of Greek ksénos, sún, phílos; Avestan xšnu-, xšanman-, etc.): Contributions to Etymological Methodology. In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 188–204.
  13. Flattery, David S. & Martin Schwartz. 1989. Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen “Soma” and its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore (University of California Publications in Near Eastern Studies 21). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  14. Schwartz, Martin. 1990. Hospitalities and formalities (√waz, √braz). In Iranica Varia. Papers in honor of Professor Ehsan Yarshater (Acta Iranica 30), 200–207. Leiden: Brill.
  15. Schwartz, Martin. 1990. Viiāmburas and Kafirs. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 4. 251–255.
  16. Schwartz, Martin. 1991. A page of a Sogdian Liber Vitæ. In Ronald E. Emmerick & Dieter Weber (eds.), Corolla Iranica. Papers in honour of Prof. Dr. David Neil MacKenzie on the occasion of his 65th birthday on April 8th, 1991, 157–166. Frankfurt.
  17. Schwartz, Martin. 1992. On Proto-Indo- European -*penkW- ‘hand.’ WORD 43(3). 421–427.
  18. Schwartz, Martin. 1996. *Sasm, Sesen, St. Sisinnios, Sesengen Barpharangēs, and... “Semanglof.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 10. 253–257.
  19. Schwartz, Martin. 2000. Revelations, Theology, and Poetics in the Gathas. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 14. 1–18.
  20. Schwartz, Martin. 2002. How Zarathushtra Generated the Gathic Corpus: Inner-textual and Intertextual Composition. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16. 53–64.
  21. Schwartz, Martin. 2003. Women in the Old Avesta: Social Position and Textual Composition. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 17. 1–8.
  22. Schwartz, Martin. 2004. More on harkā and *harkapati. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 18. 143–145.
  23. Schwartz, Martin. 2005. Apollo and Khshathrapati, the Median Nergal, at Xanthos. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 19. 145–150.
  24. Schwartz, Martin. 2005. On the Khwarezmian loss of -R-. In Dieter Weber (ed.), Languages of Iran: Past and Present. Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie (Iranica 8), 165–166. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  25. Schwartz, Martin. 2006. From Healer to Hylē: Levantine Iconography as Manichean Mythology. Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology. Brepols Publishers 1. 145–147.
  26. Schwartz, Martin. 2007. Kerdīr’s Clairvoyants: Extra-Iranian and Gathic Perspectives. In M. Macuch, M. Maggi & W. Sundermann (eds.) Iranian Languages and Texts from Iran and Turan: Ronald E. Emmerick Memorial Volume (Iranica 13), 365-376. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  27. Azarpay, Guitty, Kathleen Martin, Martin Schwartz & Dieter Weber. 2007. New Information on the Date and Function of the Berkeley MP Archive. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 17. 17–29.
  28. Schwartz, Martin. 2008. Iranian  L, and Some Persian and Zaza Etymologies. Iran & the Caucasus 12(2). 281–287.
  29. Schwartz, Martin. 2008. On Aiiehiiā, Afflictress of Childbirth, and Pairikā: Two Avestan Demonesses (with an Appendix on the Indo-Iranian Shipwrecked Seaman). Bulletin of the Asia Institute 22. 95–103.
  30. Schwartz, Martin. 2009. Pouruchista’s Gathic Wedding and the Teleological Composition of the Gathas. In W. Sundermann, A. Hintze, & F. de Blois (eds.) Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (Iranica 17), 429-448. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  31. Schwartz, Martin. 2009. Sārtha- and Other Caravan Words. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 23. 179–180.
  32. Schwartz, Martin. 2010. Lexical Cruces of Yasna 29 and the Serial Cross-Textual Composition of the Gathas. In M. Macuch, D. Weber & D. Durkin-Meisterernst (eds.) Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007 (Iranica 19), 219-224. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  33. Schwartz, Martin. 2012. Pahlavi <mycwls> = Adiantum capillus-veneris L.: Ethnobotany, Etymology, and Iranian Cultural History. Bulletin of the Asia Institute 26. 97–101.
  34. Schwartz, Martin. 2012. Transformations of the Indo-Iranian Snake-man: Myth, Language, Ethnoarcheology, and Iranian Identity. Iranian Studies 45(2). 275–279.
  35. Schwartz, Martin. 2013. Buddhist Sogdian (’)xs’yn prtw: a “Firmament” not Firmly Founded. In S. Tokhtasev & Pavel Lurje (eds.), Commentationes Iranicae. Vladimiro f. Aaron Livschits nonagenario donum natalicium, 415–418. St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences.
  36. Schwartz, Martin. 2013. Avestan Kauui- and the Vocabulary of Indo-Iranian Institutions. In J. K. Choksy & J. Dubeansky (eds.), Gifts to a Magus: Indo-Iranian Studies Honoring Firoze Kotwal (Toronto Studies in Religion 32), 63-73. New York: Peter Lang.
  37. Schwartz, Martin. 2014. Loterāʾi: Jewish Jargon, Muslim Argot. In H. M. Sarshar (ed.) The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World, 33-57. London: IB Tauris.
  38. Schwartz, Martin. 2015. Armenian varkaparazi and its Iranian Background. In Studies on Iran and The Caucasus, 403–409.
  39. Schwartz, Martin. 2015. Dimensions of the Gathas as Poetry. In M. Stausberg, Y. S-D. Vevaina & A. Tessmann (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, 51-59. Wiley Blackwell.
  40. Schwartz, Martin. 2018. A Preliterate Acrostic in the Gathas: Crosstextual and Compositional Evidence. DABIR 6. 116-124.
  41. Schwartz, Martin. 2018. Zoroaster’s Philosophy in a Descriptive and Comparative Perspective. Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 8. 171–173.
  42. Schwartz, Martin. 2019. An Early Trait of Gathic Performance.  In A. Panaino, A. Piras, and P. Ognibene (eds.) Studi iranici ravennati III, 261-268. Milan.
  43. Schwartz, Martin. 2019. On Gathic rāna-. In S. Badalkhan, G.P. Basello, and M. de Chiara (eds.), Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi, 867-882. Napoli.
  44. Schwartz, Martin & Alexis Manaster Ramer. 2019. Some Interlinguistic Iranian Conundrums. In Almut Hintze, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst & Claudius Naumann (eds.), A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch, 357–362. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  45. Schwartz, Martin. 2021. Avestica, Sogdo-Yagnobica, and Indo-Europæica. Родной язык 1. 199–205.
  46. Schwartz, Martin. 2022. Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica. Iran and the Caucasus 26. 51-66.
  47. Schwartz, Martin. 2022. Etymologa Entomologica: Proto-Iranian ‘Scorpion’, Indo-Iranica, and Indo-Europaeica. In A. Sh. Doust (ed.), Dādestān ī Dēnīg, Festschrift for Mahmoud Jaafar-Dehaghi, 355-376. Tehran.
  48. Schwartz, Martin. 2022. Gathic †mąnarōiš: A Hapax Expatiated Compositionally. In Alberto Cantera, Maria Macuch & Nicholas Sims-Williams (eds.), The Reward of the Righteous: Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze (Iranica 30), 449–466. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  49. Schwartz, Martin. 2023. The ‘House of Song’, the *‘House of Clay’, Arm. gerezman, and Caucaso-Albanica. Iran and the Caucasus 27(2). 184–195.
  50. Schwartz, Martin. 2023. A Rebetic Roundup: People, Songs, Words, and Whatnot. In E. Emery (ed.), SOAS Rebetiko Reader. London, Chapter 29. Online version: www.geocities.ws/soasrebetikoreader
  51. Schwartz, Martin. *2024 (to appear). Mnemonica Iranica. In a festschrift ed. M. Macuch, K. Kahrom, & C. Naumann, 419-430. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  52. Schwartz, Martin. *2024 (to appear). Yasnas 46 and 32. In a festschrift ed. A. Cantera, E. Pirard, & C. Redard.