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Index
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
About the Author
About the Contributors
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