The Bundahišn

Domenico Agostini is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Tel Aviv University. He has been the recipient of the Prix Pirasteh in Persian Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris (2008) and the Polonsky fellowship for Outstanding postdoctoral researchers (2013-2017). He has published extensively in the field of the Zoroastrian apocalyptic ideas and Middle Persian literature.Samuel Thrope is a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a fellow of the Martin Buber Society at Hebrew University. His translation of Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad's The Israeli Republic was published in 2017, and he is co-editor, with Roberta Cassagrande-Kim and Raquel Ukeles, of the 2018 exhibition catalogue Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past.

• Foreword by Shaul ShakedIntroductionPrologue1: On Material Creation2: On the Creation of the Lights3: On Why Creation Chose to Fight4: On How the Adversary Attacked Creation5: On the Opposition of the Two Spirits6: On the Stages of the Battle of the Material Creation against the Evil Spirit7: On the Likenesses of the Creatures8: On the Nature of the Lands9: On the Nature of the Mountains10: On the Nature of the Seas11: On the Nature of the Rivers12: On the Nature of Lakes13: On the Nature of the Five Forms of Animals14: On the Nature of Mankind15: On the Nature of the Birth of All Species16: On the Nature of Plants17: On the Mastery of Men, Animals, and Everything18: On the Nature of Fire19: On Sleep20: On Songs21: On the Nature of Wind, Clouds and Rain22: On Vermin23: On the Nature of the Wolf Species24: On Various Things: How they were Created, and how their Adversaries Came25: On the Religious Year26: On the Great Deeds of the Spiritual Deities27: On Ahriman and the Demons' Evil Deeds28: On the Human Body as the Measure of the Material World29: On the Mastery of the Continents30: On the Cinwad Bridge and the Souls of the Departed31: On the Celebrated Lands of Iran, and the Kayanid House32: On the Glorious Kayanid Palaces, which they call Wonders and Marvels33: On the Calamities that have Befallen Iran, Millenium by Millenium34: On Resurrection and the Final Body35: On the Family and Lineage of Kayanids and on the Lineage of Porusasp36: On the Chronology of the Arabs of Twelve Thousand YearsAfterword by Guy G. StroumsaBibliographyNotesIndex

Agostini and Thrope have produced an excellent translation together with introductory matter and notes that make the Bundahišn readily accessible to not only Iranists, but also to Indo-Europeanists and students of religion in general.