Beschreibung:
Seven Testaments is volume one of a trilogy, introducing and supplementing the already popular academic texts, Three Testaments: Torah Gospel and Quran (2012) and Four Testaments: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita (2016).
This essential comparative religious studies resource presents primary scriptures of seven world religions and reveals their shared heritage in Zoroastrian tradition. Completing the authoritative trilogy alongside Three Testaments: Torah Gospel and Quran and Four Testaments: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Seven Testamentsof World Religion lays the groundwork for all studies of religious history.
Special Features
Concise descriptions of each testament
Maps, timelines, and study guide questions
Appendices connecting historical events across testaments
Foreword, Karen Hamilton
Prologue: Twenty Years in the Making
Preface: What's New in This Book?
Introduction, David Bruce
Disclaimers: What If? and Other Questions
Part I: Indo-European Connections in All Seven Testaments on World Religion
1. Breakthroughs in the Study of World Religions
2. From the Z Factor to Zoroaster, including a historic exordium by Friedrich Geldner
3. From the Foundations of the Earth: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories East and West
4. Commissioned at the River: A Priest Becomes a Prophet
5. The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age
6. The Extant Avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle
7. The Fraternal Twins of World Religions
8. Monism and Monotheism in Actual Practice
Part II: Creation and Apocalypse in World Religions: Avestan Models in Torah, Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Gospel, and Quran
9. The Dead Zee Scrolls: Zoroastrian Concepts Buried in the Scriptures of World Religions
10. An Essence of the Torah
11. An Essence of the Tao
12. An Essence of the Analects
13. An Essence of the Dhammapada
14. An Essence of the Bagavad Gita
15. An Essence of the Gospel
16. An Essence of the Quran
Part III: Appendices
A. Twelve Session Study Guides for Three Testaments and Four Testaments, David Bruce
B. Three Testaments: Shalom, Peace, Salam
C. Where the Bodies are Buried
D. Older Testaments: Encounters on the Way, a one-act play, William Thomas
E. Identifying the Tomb of Zoroaster
F. The Sogdians: Prime Movers between Boundaries, Jenny Rose
G. Sogdians in China: A Short History and Some New Discoveries, Étienne de la Vaissière
H. Plot Summary for a Movie about a Zoroastrian Tragedy
Epilogue: An Agenda for Another Twenty Years: Finding and Identifying the Dead Zee Scrolls
Afterword: Continuing the Magi Journey, including article by Mark Rose
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