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TheJamasp Nameh^{[pronunciation?]} (var:Jāmāsp Nāmag,Jāmāsp Nāmeh, "Story ofJamasp") is aMiddle Persian book of revelations. In an extended sense, it is also aprimary source onMedievalZoroastrian doctrine and legend. The work is also known as theAyādgār ī Jāmāspīg orAyātkār-ī Jāmāspīk, meaning "[In] Memoriam of Jamasp".

The text takes the form of a series of questions and answers betweenVishtasp and Jamasp, both of whom were amongstZoroaster's immediate and closest disciples. Vishtasp was the princely protector and patron of Zoroaster while Jamasp was a nobleman at Vishtasp's court. Both are figures mentioned in theGathas, the oldest hymns of Zoroastrianism and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster.Here (chap. 3.6-7) there occurs a striking theological statement, thatOhrmazd’s creation of the sevenAmašaspands was like lamps being lit one from another, none being diminished thereby.^[1]

The text has survived in three forms:

• aPahlavi manuscript, that is, a rendering of the Middle Persian language using anAramaic-derived script and accompanied by Aramaicideograms. The Pahlavi manuscript is damaged and fragmented.
• a transmission inPazand, that is, a rendering of the Middle Persian language using Avestan script (also an Aramaic derivative) but without any non-Iranian vocabulary. ThePazend version has survived in its entirety.
• a ModernPersian translation inArabic script has also survived. It is slightly younger than the other two manuscripts.

• TheDēnkard, a 10th-century compendium of the Zoroastrian beliefs and customs.
• TheBundahishn, a Zoroastrian account of Mazdaencosmogony andcosmology.
• TheAyadgar-i Zariran, a Zoroastrian epic story
• Frashokereti, Zoroastrian eschatology

• Boyce, MaryAYĀDGĀR Ī JĀMĀSPĪG in Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Bailey, H.W.To the Zamasp-Namak. I. BSOS 6, 1930–32, pp. 56–68
• Bailey, H.W.To the Zamasp Namak. II. BSOS 6, (1930–32), pp. 581–600
• Olsson, Tord (1983). "The Apocalyptic Activity. The Case of Jāmāsp Nāmag". In David Hellholm (ed.).Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr.

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