ABSTRACT
Although influence of Zoroastrian eschatology on the Judaeo-Christian tradition is widely recognised, so far little attention has been paid to the parallel concepts of the saviour in the two traditions. What has to be established is not what the teaching of Zoroaster was concerning the saviour, although this may be one step on the way, but rather what was the teaching of the Zoroastrianism of the pre-Christian period. The word occurs a number of times in the Gathas, but its implications are far from clear. It is used in the plural, apparently to denote the future benefactors of the Good Religion. Despite the characteristics of the Avesta that people have already referred to, nevertheless certain of Sosyant's functions are so clearly defined that they have no need even to look to the Pahlavi texts. The Pahlavi Bundahishn states that another part of the restoration is the resurrection of the dead by Sosyant.
