Description |
1 online resource |
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 |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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 |
|