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Hintze, Almut. "71. Book Chapter: "On editing the Avesta". In: A. Cantera (ed.), The Transmission of the Avesta. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012, 419–432 (Iranica 20)". Iranica 20.
Cantera, Alberto (2012). "Preface". In Cantera, Alberto (ed.). The transmission of the Avesta. Iranica. Vol. 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-06554-2. The Avestan texts were probably composed in Eastern Iran between the second half of the 2nd millennium bce and the end of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Skjaervo, P. Oktor (2012). "The Zoroastrian Oral Tradition as Reflected in the Texts". In Cantera, Alberto (ed.). The Transmission of the Avesta. Iranica. Vol. 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 3–48. ISBN 978-3-447-06554-2.
Kellens 1998. Kellens, Jean (1998). "Considérations sur l'histoire de l'Avesta". Journal Asiatique. 286 (2): 451–519. doi:10.2143/JA.286.2.556497.

de Vaan & Martínez García 2014, pp.5-6. de Vaan, Michiel; Martínez García, Javier (2014). Introduction to Avestan (PDF). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-25777-1.

Kellens 1998. Kellens, Jean (1998). "Considérations sur l'histoire de l'Avesta". Journal Asiatique. 286 (2): 451–519. doi:10.2143/JA.286.2.556497.
Witzel 2000, p. 10: "Since the evidence of Young Avestan place names so clearly points to a more eastern location, the Avesta is again understood, nowadays, as an East Iranian text, whose area of composition comprised -- at least -- Sīstån/Arachosia, Herat, Merw and Bactria.". Witzel, Michael (2000). "The Home of the Aryans". In Hinze, A.; Tichy, E. (eds.). Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag (PDF). J. H. Roell. pp. 283–338. doi:10.11588/xarep.00000114.

Kellens 1987, p. 35–44. Kellens, Jean (1987), "Avesta", Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. 3, New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 35–44.
Cantera 2015. Cantera, Alberto (2015), "Avesta II: Middle Persian Translations", Encyclopedia Iranica, New York: Encyclopedia Iranica online.
Hoffmann 1987, "Every Avestan text, whether composed originally in Old Avestan or in Young Avestan, went through several stages of transmission before it was recorded in the extant manuscripts. During the course of transmission many changes took place". Hoffmann, Karl (December 15, 1987). "AVESTAN LANGUAGE i-iii". Encyclopædia Iranica. Brill Academic Publishers.
Foundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica. "AVESTA i. Survey of the history and contents of the book". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2024-12-29.

Aragona, Jared. ""Avesta, The Bible of Zoroaster"". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Witzel 2000, p. 10: "Since the evidence of Young Avestan place names so clearly points to a more eastern location, the Avesta is again understood, nowadays, as an East Iranian text, whose area of composition comprised -- at least -- Sīstån/Arachosia, Herat, Merw and Bactria.". Witzel, Michael (2000). "The Home of the Aryans". In Hinze, A.; Tichy, E. (eds.). Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag (PDF). J. H. Roell. pp. 283–338. doi:10.11588/xarep.00000114.

Kreyenbroek 2022, p. 202: "Still, the language of these Old Iranian texts stopped well short of evolving to a “Middle Iranian” stage, which suggests that they became “fixed” a long time before they were committed to writing in their present form". Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (August 2022). "Early Zoroastrianism and Orality". Oral Tradition among Religious Communities in the Iranian-Speaking World. Cambridge: Harvard University.
Kreyenbroek 2022, p. 202: "The only way such a process is imaginable is a scenario where a small, authoritative group of priests taught these texts to another group of transmitters who had no prior knowledge of them. This would have been the case when Zoroastrianism first became influential in Western Iran, under Darius I". Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (August 2022). "Early Zoroastrianism and Orality". Oral Tradition among Religious Communities in the Iranian-Speaking World. Cambridge: Harvard University.