Encyclopedia Of World Scriptures

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"A quick and easy way to compare the holy writings of numerous religious traditions...fascinating"--Against the Grain; "a wealth of information"--BVS Reviews. The most sacred and influential writings the world has recorded are covered A-Z in this encyclopedia. The entries convey works from the cities of Mecca, Jerusalem, Rome, Delphi, and Salt Lake City; from caves in Qumran and mountains in Japan; from the Indus Valley and the American West, from classical China, Egypt and Greece; from the Hebrew communities of Iberia and of the German states. Although all of the scriptures speak to a human need, there are many differences in style, purpose, and tone. The entries include holy law (The White Roots of Peace), funeral prescriptions (the Tibetan Book of the Dead), ceremonies (the Lakota Black Elk Speaks), literature (Homeric hymns), hero stories (the Japanese Kojiki), word puzzles (the koans of Zen), Christ lore (the Apocrypha and the New Testament), matrices (I Ching and Tantra), and numerology (the Jewish Kabbala). Writing styles include both the rapture of Rumis Mathnawi and the spare aphorism of Confuciuss Analects. The information given in the texts rang The most sacred and influential writings the world has recorded are covered A-Z in this encyclopedia. The entries convey works from the cities of Mecca, Jerusalem, Rome, Delphi, and Salt Lake City; from caves in Qumran and mountains in Japan; from the Indus Valley and the American West, from classical China, Egypt and Greece; from the Hebrew communities of Iberia and of the German states. Although all of the scriptures speak to a human need, there are many differences in style, purpose, and tone. The entries include holy law, funeral prescriptions, ceremonies, literature, hero stories, word puzzles, Christ lore, matrices, and numerology.

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