The Bundahišn (meaning primal or primordial creation) is one of the most important Zoroastrian texts. Redacted in the 9th century, though containing earlier, Sasanian material, the Bundahišn deals with a wide variety of topics ranging from spiritual and material creation to the resurrection of the body and the restoration of the world. This article will address a number of previously underexplored scholarly questions: What type of text does the Bundahišn constitute? To which genre does it belong? How does it relate to the literary context of its own era? In the attempt to answer these questions, the article will compare this Zoroastrian book with two contemporary Islamic and Jewish texts: the Epistles of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ and Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer.

该Bundahišn（意为原始或原始创作）是最重要的琐罗亚斯德教的文本之一。尽管在9世纪进行了修订，但其中包含了较早的萨桑式材料，Bundahišn处理的主题范围很广，从精神和物质创造到身体的复活和世界的恢复。本文将解决一些以前尚未被研究的学术问题：本大希恩书构成什么类型的文本？它属于哪一类？它与自己时代的文学背景有何关系？为了回答这些问题，本文将这本琐罗亚斯德教徒的书与两种当代伊斯兰和犹太教文本进行了比较：《伊赫瓦恩·阿法夫书信》和《Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer。