Four Testaments

Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2017
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781538109083 (ISBN)

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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. Following Brian Arthur Brown’s award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran, this volume of Four Testaments features essays by esteemed scholars to introduce readers to each tradition and text, as well as commentary on unexpected ways the ancient Zoroastrian tradition might connect Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, as well as the Abrahamic faiths. Four Testaments aims to foster deeper religious understanding in our interconnected and contentious world.

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

Through the Mists of Time: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and WestA Priest Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the RiverA Chance Meeting at the Crossroads of History: A Prelude to the Babylonian Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic ReligionsThe Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial AgeThe Extant Avesta: A Few Pieces of the Jigsaw PuzzleThe Fraternal Twins of World Religion: Monism for MonotheistsBook 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. MairBook 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 LeggeBook 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. RadhakrishnanBook 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

Bhagavad Gita: translated by GandhiBook 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 RedeemerUp from the River Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the WorldChinvat Bridge – The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and “Previous Revelations” Corrected in the QuranBook 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 CenturyEpilogue: 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	03.02.2018
Co-Autor	David Bruce, K. E. Eduljee, Richard Freund
Vorwort	Professor Francis X. Clooney SJ
Zusatzinfo	2 b/w illustrations; 11 b/w photos; 1 table; 1 textbox
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 255 mm
Gewicht	848 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-13	9781538109083 / 9781538109083
Zustand	Neuware