Letter of Tansar
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letter-of-tansar-217-5242038
title:
Letter of Tansar
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The Letter of Tansar was a 6th-century Sassanid propaganda instrument that portrayed the preceding Arsacid period as morally corrupt and heretical, and presented the first Sassanid dynast Ardashir I as having "restored" the faith to a "firm foundation." The letter was simultaneously a declaration of the unity of Zoroastrian church and Iranian state, "for church and state were born of the one womb, joined together and never to be sundered." The document seems to have been based on a genuine 3rd-c
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_Tansar
date created:
2009-01-27T19:45:27Z
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2024-09-13T06:33:40Z
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