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245 00 Four testaments :|bTao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada,
Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism,
Buddhism, and Hinduism /|c[edited by] Brian Arthur Brown ;
foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ.
264 1 Lanham :|bRowman and Littlefield,|c[2016]
300 xvi, 479 pages :|billustrations ;|c26 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-463) and
index.
505 0 |6880-01|aContents -- Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ,
Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World
Religions -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 by Cyril Glasse -- Exordium: What We Once Knew,
by Karl Friedrich Geldner -- Preface: Why the Z Factor
Matters -- Through the Mists of Time: Vedic and Semitic
Prehistories Connecting East and West -- A Priest Becomes
a Prophet: Commissioned at the River -- A Chance Meeting
at the Crossroads of History: A Prelude to the Babylonian
Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic Religions
-- The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age -- The Extant
Avesta: A Few Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle -- The Fraternal
Twins of World Religion: Monism for Monotheists -- Book
Two The Taoist Testament -- Introduction: Magi in China
and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the
First MillenniumBCE by Professor Victor H. Mair, Professor
of Chinese, Philadelphia University -- Preface: Magic and
iMagination -- Tao Te Ching: translated by Victor H. Mair
-- Book Three The Confucian Testament -- Introduction:
Innovation vs. Tradition by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin,
Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Oakland -- Preface: Fireworks
East and West -- The Analects: translated by James Legge -
- Book Four The Buddhist Testament -- Introduction: The
Indian Origins of Buddhism by Professor Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan, Oxford -- Preface: King Akbar's Perfect
Religion -- Dhammapada: translated by S. Radhakrishnan --
Book Five The Hindu Testament.
505 8 Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination by Professor Arvind
Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill
University -- Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas
Gandhi -- Bhagavad Gita: translated by Gandhi -- Book Six
The Z Factor -- Introduction: Eastern Influence in Western
Texts by Dr. David Bruce -- Preface: New Frontiers in
Scriptural Studies -- Israel in Exile: God as Israel's
Only Redeemer -- Up from the River Again, With a Promise
of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the
Redeemer of the World -- Chinvat Bridge -- The Final
Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous
Revelations" Corrected in the Quran -- Book Seven The Dead
Zee Scrolls -- Introduction: Digging Through Time by
Professor Richard Freund -- Preface: A Model for the
Twenty First Century -- Among the Ruins: Tablets and
Cylinders -- From Aurel Stein to Mary Boyce and Beyond:
Controversies in the Twentieth Century -- Epilogue: The
Resurrection of Zoroaster: A Prophet for the Twenty First
Century -- Dancing on the Edge of Tombs: More Treasure
Than Anyone Imagined -- Appendix: Images of the Original
Eastern Testaments -- Preface to Images: The Edict of
Cyrus and the Chinese Cuneiform Bones by E.K. Eduljee.
505 0 Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the
Harvard Center for Study of World Religions -- 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 / by Cyril Glassé -- Exordium: What We Once Knew
/ by Karl Friedrich Geldner -- Preface: Why the Z Factor
Matters -- From the Foundations of the Earth: Vedic and
Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West -- A Priest
Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the River -- A Chance
Meeting at the Crossroads of History: Before the Vedic-
Semitic Interface in Babylon -- The Silk Route: The Axis
of the Axial Age -- The Extant Avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw
Puzzle -- The Fraternal Twins of World Religion: 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 / by
Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia
University -- Preface: Magic and iMagination -- Tao Te
Ching / translated by Victor H. Mair -- Book Three: The
Confucian Testament -- Introduction: Tradition versus
Innovation / by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi,
Temple Sinai, Oakland -- Preface: Fireworks East and West
-- Analects / translated by James Legge -- Book Four: The
Buddhist Testament -- Introduction: The Indian Origins of
Buddhism / by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford -- Preface:
The Path of Teachings -- Dhammapada / translated by
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Book Five: The Hindu Testament
-- Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination / by Arvind
Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill
University -- Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas
Gandhi -- Bhagavad Gita / translated by Mohandas Gandhi --
Book Six: The Z Factor -- Introduction: The Texts / by
David Bruce -- Preface: New Frontiers in Scriptural
Studies -- Israel in Exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer
-- Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the
World -- Chinvat Bridge: The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian
Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected and
confirmed in the Quran -- Book Seven: The Dead Zee Scrolls
-- Introduction: Searching for the "Dead Zee Scrolls" / by
Richard Freund -- Preface: A Model for the Twenty-First
Century -- Among the Ruins: Tablets and Cylinders -- 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 Come.
520 "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"--|cProvided by publisher.
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650 7 RELIGION|xHinduism|xSacred Writings.|2bisacsh
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700 1 Brown, Brian A.,|d1942-|eeditor.
700 1 Clooney, Francis X.|q(Francis Xavier),|d1950-|ewriter of
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700 02 Laozi.|tDao de jing.|lEnglish.
700 02 Confucius.|tLun yu.|lEnglish.
730 02 Bhagavadgītā.|lEnglish.
730 02 Tipiṭaka.|pSuttapiṭaka.|pKhuddakanikāya.|pDhammapada.
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776 08 |iOnline version:|tFour testaments.|dLanham, Maryland :
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880 8 |6505-01/(3/r|aIntroduction: Reciprocal Illumination by
Professor Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative
Religion, McGill University -- Preface: With Notes from
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi -- Bhagavad Gita: translated by
Gandhi -- Book Six The Z Factor -- Introduction: Eastern
Influence in Western Texts by Dr. David Bruce -- Preface:
New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies -- Israel in Exile:
God as Israel#x0;s Only Redeemer -- Up from the River
Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian
Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the World -- Chinvat Bridge
#x0; The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and
(ىآْذمُsمزم(٣Corrected in the Quran -- Book Seven The Dead
Zee Scrolls -- Introduction: Digging Through Time by
Professor Richard Freund -- Preface: A Model for the
Twenty First Century -- Among the Ruins: Tablets and
Cylinders -- From Aurel Stein to Mary Boyce and Beyond:
Controversies in the Twentieth Century -- Epilogue: The
Resurrection of Zoroaster: A Prophet for the Twenty First
Century -- Dancing on the Edge of Tombs: More Treasure
Than Anyone Imagined -- Appendix: Images of the Original
Eastern Testaments -- Preface to Images: The Edict of
Cyrus and the Chinese Cuneiform Bones by E.K. Eduljee.
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