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Additional authors

1. Brown, Brian A., 1942-
2. Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950-
3. Laozi
4. Confucius

Description

1. xvi, 479 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Uniform title

1. Bhagavadgītā. English.
2. Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. English.

Alternative title

1. Tao Te Ching.
2. Analects.
3. Bhagavad Gita.
4. Dhammapada.

Subject

1. Sacred books
2. Religions > Relations
3. RELIGION > Comparative Religion
4. RELIGION > Buddhism > Sacred Writings
5. RELIGION > Confucianism
6. RELIGION > Hinduism > Sacred Writings
7. RELIGION > Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY > Taoist)
8. Interfaith relations
9. Religion
10. Religions
11. Buddhismus
12. Heilige Schrift
13. Hinduismus
14. Konfuzianismus
15. Taoismus
16. Asia > Religion
17. Asia
18. Asien

Genre/Form

1. Sacred works.

Contents

1. 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 / 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.

Call number

1. JFF 16-1511

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-463) and index.

Title

1. 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.

Publisher

1. Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-463) and index.

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Added author

1. Brown, Brian A., 1942- editor.
2. Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950- writer of foreword.
3. Laozi. Dao de jing. English.
4. Confucius. Lun yu. English.

Added title

1. Bhagavadgītā. English.
2. Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. English.
3. Tao Te Ching.
4. Analects.
5. Bhagavad Gita.
6. Dhammapada.

Other form:

1. Online version: Four testaments. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016 9781442265783 (DLC) 2016006183

LCCN

1. 2016003911

Other standard identifier

1. 40026257029

ISBN

1. 9781442265776 (hardback)
2. 1442265779 (hardback)
3. 9781442265783
4. 9781538109083
5. 1538109085

Research call number

1. JFF 16-1511
2. *R-RMRR BL70 .F67 2016