Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions
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 Glasse
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 West
A Priest Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the River
A Chance Meeting at the Crossroads of History: A Prelude to the Babylonian Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic Religions
The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age
The Extant Avesta: A Few Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle
The Fraternal Twins of World Religion: Monism for Monotheists
Book 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. Mair
Book 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 Legge
Book 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. Radhakrishnan
Book 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 Gandhi
Introduction: Eastern Influence in Western Texts by Dr. David Bruce
Preface: New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies
Israel in Exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer
Up from the River Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the World
The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected in the Quran
Book 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 Century
Epilogue: 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.
Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions
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
From the Foundations of the Earth: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West
A Priest Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the River
A Chance Meeting at the Crossroads of History: Before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylon
The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age
The Extant Avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle
The Fraternal Twins of World Religion: 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 / by Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia University
Preface: Magic and iMagination
Tao Te Ching / translated by Victor H. Mair
Book Three: The Confucian Testament
Introduction: Tradition versus Innovation / by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Oakland
Preface: Fireworks East and West
Analects / translated by James Legge
Book Four: The Buddhist Testament
Introduction: The Indian Origins of Buddhism / by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford
Preface: The Path of Teachings
Dhammapada / translated by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Book Five: The Hindu Testament
Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination / by Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill University
Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
Bhagavad Gita / translated by Mohandas Gandhi
Introduction: The Texts / by David Bruce
Preface: New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies
Israel in Exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer
Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the World
Chinvat Bridge: The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected and confirmed in the Quran
Book Seven: The Dead Zee Scrolls
Introduction: Searching for the "Dead Zee Scrolls" / by 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 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.
