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

Intro -- contents -- foreword -- illustrations -- acknowledgments -- abridgment and dramatic presentations -- 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 -- exordium. What We Once Knew -- preface. Why the Z Factor Matters -- chapter 1. from the foundations of the earth: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West -- chapter 2. a priest becomes a prophet: Commissioned at the River -- chapter 3. a chance meeting at the crossroads of history: Before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylon -- chapter 4. the silk route: The Axis of the Axial Age -- chapter 5. the extant avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle -- chapter 6. the fraternal twins of world religions: 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 -- preface. Magic and iMagination -- chapter 7. tao te ching -- book three. THE CONFUCIAN TESTAMENT -- introduction. Tradition versus Innovation -- preface. Fireworks, East and West -- chapter 8. analects -- book four. THE BUDDHIST TESTAMENT -- introduction. The Indian Origins of Buddhism -- preface. The Path of the Teachings -- chapter 9. dhammapada -- book five. THE HINDU TESTAMENT -- introduction. Reciprocal Illumination -- preface. With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi -- chapter 10. bhagavad gita -- book six. THE Z FACTOR -- introduction. The Texts -- preface. New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies -- chapter 11. israel in exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer -- chapter 12. jesus as a zoroastrian saoshyant, the redeemer of the world.

chapter 13. chinvat bridge: the final judgment. Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected and Confirmed in the Quran -- book seven. THE "DEAD ZEE SCROLLS" -- introduction. Searching for the "Dead Zee Scrolls" -- preface. A Model for the Twenty-First Century -- chapter 14. among the ruins: Tablets and Cylinders -- chapter 15. 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 -- notes -- bibliography -- index -- about the author -- about the contributors.

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.

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