ABSTRACT
Ithasnotyetbeenestablishedwhenandwherehewasborn.Hemay havebeenborninthenorth-eastofIranandaccordingtoProf.Boyce: 'Intheabsenceofanyexternalevidence,itseemsnaturaltoconclude thattheprophetlivedsometimebetween1400and1000B.C.whenhis peoplewereperhapsstilldwellinginthenorthernpartofcentralAsia, beforemovingsouthtofixtheirabodeinKhwarezm'.Boyce,History /,p.190.SeealsoLehmann-Haupt,'WannlebteZarathustra?', Stud.Pavry,pp.251-80.
