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On Searching the Scriptures -- Your Own or Someone Else's: A Reader's Guide to Sacred Writings and Methods of Studying Them
On Searching the Scriptures Your Own or Someone Else's A Reader's Guide to Sacred Writings and Methods of Studying Them Author:Jaroslav Pelikan The six volumes of "Sacred Writings," edited by Jaroslav Pelikan, provide decisive and influential texts by which the general reader may better understand the six world religious traditions: — 1. Judaisn: The Tanakh — 2. Christianity: The Apocrypha and The New Testament — 3. Islam: The Qur'an — 4. Confucianism: The Analects of Confuciu... more »s
5. Hinduism: The Rig Veda
6. Buddhism: The Dhammapada
In On Searching the Scriptures, this companion volume to Sacred Writings, Professor Pelikan explains the title, composition and authorship, language and text, canon and authority, traditional interpretation, and his choice of translation for each of the sacred books. Six stimulating essays suggest ways in which both religious and nonreligious readers may explore and appreciate these sacred books.« less