With ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES, 9th Edition you may encounter most likely essentially the most notable and instructive sacred texts from predominant world religions, along with Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You’ll moreover examine scriptures from new non secular actions along with Baha’i, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Christian Science Church, and the Unification Church. You’ll look at scriptural readings in context, see how each religion is unquestionably practiced in the intervening time, along with be launched to its historic previous, teachings, group, ethics, and rituals. That may help you understand the readings, you could uncover introductions, look at questions, glossaries, in depth footnotes explaining harder parts of the readings, scriptural charts, and choices for added finding out.
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Dr. Robert E. Van Voorst is Professor of New Testament Analysis at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, and former professor of religion at Lycoming Faculty in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the place he was named Teacher of the Yr in 1995. He has served as a visiting professor in Oxford School and Zhejiang School in China. Van Voorst has written ceaselessly on non secular analysis in well-known journals and reference works. In addition to, he has authored fairly a couple of books, along with six with Cengage Learning: RELG: WORLD, third Edition; READINGS IN CHRISTIANITY, third Edition; ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES, 9th Edition; ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES: EASTERN RELIGIONS; ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES: WESTERN RELIGIONS; and READING THE NEW TESTAMENT TODAY, now moreover in a Chinese language language mannequin. Completely different books by Van Voorst embody BUILDING YOUR NEW TESTAMENT GREEK VOCABULARY, third Edition; THE ASCENTS OF JAMES, a restoration and commentary on a second-century Jewish-Christian doc; and JESUS OUTSIDE THE NEW TESTAMENT, an examination of traditions about Jesus in historic classical and Jewish paperwork, now moreover in Italian.
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