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Title Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism / edited by Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016
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Contents Foreword; illustrations; acknowledgments; abridgment and dramatic presentations; prologue. Four Fingers and a Thumb: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta; book one. FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH TO OUR COMMON SPIRITUAL ANCESTORS; introduction. East and West Meeting at the Altar of Religion; exordium. What We Once Knew; preface. Why the Z Factor Matters; chapter 1. from the foundations of the earth: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West; chapter 2. a priest becomes a prophet: Commissioned at the River
Chapter 3. a chance meeting at the crossroads of history: Before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylonchapter 4. the silk route: The Axis of the Axial Age; chapter 5. the extant avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle; chapter 6. the fraternal twins of world religions: Monism for Monotheists; book two. THE TAOIST TESTAMENT; introduction. Magi in China and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the First Millennium BCE; preface. Magic and iMagination; chapter 7. tao te ching; book three. THE CONFUCIAN TESTAMENT; introduction. Tradition versus Innovation; preface. Fireworks, East and West
Chapter 8. analectsbook four. THE BUDDHIST TESTAMENT; introduction. The Indian Origins of Buddhism; preface. The Path of the Teachings; chapter 9. dhammapada; book five. THE HINDU TESTAMENT; introduction. Reciprocal Illumination; preface. With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi; chapter 10. bhagavad gita; book six. THE Z FACTOR; introduction. The Texts; preface. New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies; chapter 11. israel in exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer; chapter 12. jesus as a zoroastrian saoshyant, the redeemer of the world
Chapter 13. chinvat bridge: the final judgment. Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected and Confirmed in the Quranbook seven. THE "DEAD ZEE SCROLLS"; introduction. Searching for the "Dead Zee Scrolls"; preface. A Model for the Twenty-First Century; chapter 14. among the ruins: Tablets and Cylinders; chapter 15. from aurel stein to mary boyce and beyond: Controversies in the Twentieth Century and Resolution in the Twenty-First; epilogue. The Resurrection of Zoroaster: A Prophet from the East for the Twenty-First Century
APPENDIX. Images of the Original Eastern Testaments and Tantalizing Hints of Things to Comenotes; bibliography; index; about the author; about the contributors
Summary "Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions--the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita--inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Sacred books.
Religions -- Relations.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Sacred Writings.
RELIGION -- Confucianism.
RELIGION -- Hinduism -- Sacred Writings.
RELIGION -- Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY -- Taoist)
Interfaith relations.
Religion.
Religions.
Sacred books.
SUBJECT Asia -- Religion
Subject Asia.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Brian A., 1942- editor.
Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950- writer of foreword.
Laozi. Dao de jing. English.
Confucius. Lun yu. English.
LC no. 2016006183
ISBN 9781442265783
1442265787
OTHER TI Bhagavadgītā. English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88014239
Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96099726