Four Testaments (eBook)

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.

ContentsForeword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: 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 AncestorsIntroduction: East and West Meeting at the Altar of Religion by Cyril GlasséExordium: What We Once Knew, by Karl Friedrich GeldnerPreface: Why the Z Factor MattersThrough 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 TwoThe Taoist TestamentIntroduction: Magi in China and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the First MillenniumBCE by Professor Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia UniversityPreface: Magic and iMaginationTao Te Ching: translated by Victor H. MairBook ThreeThe Confucian TestamentIntroduction: Innovation vs.Tradition by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, OaklandPreface: Fireworks East and WestThe Analects: translated by James LeggeBook FourThe Buddhist TestamentIntroduction: The Indian Origins of Buddhism by Professor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford Preface: King Akbar’s Perfect ReligionDhammapada: translated by S. RadhakrishnanBook FiveThe Hindu TestamentIntroduction: Reciprocal Illumination by Professor Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill UniversityPreface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas GandhiBhagavad Gita: translated by GandhiBook SixThe Z FactorIntroduction: Eastern Influence in Western Texts by Dr. David BrucePreface: New Frontiers in Scriptural StudiesIsrael 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 SevenThe Dead Zee ScrollsIntroduction: Digging Through Time by Professor Richard FreundPreface: A Model for the Twenty First CenturyAmong 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 CenturyDancing on the Edge of Tombs: More Treasure Than Anyone ImaginedAppendix: Images of the Original Eastern TestamentsPreface to Images: The Edict of Cyrus and the Chinese Cuneiform Bones by E. K. EduljeeBibliographyIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors