Four Testaments
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6577-6 (ISBN)
Brian Arthur Brown is an independent scholar and a United Church of Canada minister. He is the author or editor of several books, including the award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran and Noah’s Other Son.
Contents
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 Glassé
Exordium: What We Once Knew, by Karl Friedrich Geldner
Preface: Why the Z Factor Matters
1.Through the Mists of Time: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West
2.A Priest Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the River
3.A Chance Meeting at the Crossroads of History: A Prelude to the Babylonian Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic Religions
4.The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age
5.The Extant Avesta: A Few Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle
6.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 Professor Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia University
Preface: Magic and iMagination
7. 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
8.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
9.Dhammapada: translated by S. Radhakrishnan
Book Five
The Hindu Testament
Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination by Professor Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill University
Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
10.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
11.Israel in Exile: God as Israel’s Only Redeemer
12.Up from the River Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the World
13.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
14.Among the Ruins: Tablets and Cylinders
15.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
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.07.2016 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | David Bruce, K. E. Eduljee, Richard Freund |
| Vorwort | SJ Clooney Francis X. |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 184 x 260 mm |
| Gewicht | 1061 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4422-6577-9 / 1442265779 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-6577-6 / 9781442265776 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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