ABSTRACT
The SASANIAN period was a crucial time in the formation of several great religious traditions of the Near East-Judaism, Christianity, Manichaeism-and in laying the foundations for that which was to come, the emergence of Islam. In discussing a certain number of issues in the religious history of Iran under the Sasanians we have to touch upon some larger questions that are not easily answered, but I hope that this book will provide materials for treating them.
