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Sacred Texts of the World

Hardy, Grant. DVD - 2014 DVD 208.2 Ha Oversize 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Thirty six lectures at 30 min. each.
Disc 1: 1. Reading other people's scriptures -- 2. Hinduism and the Vedas -- 3. What is heard: Upanishads -- 4. What is remembered: epics -- 5. Laws of Manu and Bhagavad Gita -- 6. Related traditions: Sikh scriptures -- disc 2: 7. Judaism: people of the book -- 8. Five books of Torah -- 9. Prophets and writings -- 10. Apocrypha and Dead Sea scrolls -- 11. Oral Torah: Mishnah and Talmud -- 12. Related traditions: Zoroastrian scriptures -- disc 3: 13. The three baskets of buddhism -- 14. Vinaya and Jakata -- 15. Theravada Sutras -- 16. Mahayana Sutras -- 17. Pure land Buddhism and Zen -- 18. Tibetan Vajrayana -- disc 4: 19. Related traditions: Jain scriptures -- 20. Five Confucian classics -- 21. Four books of neo-Confucianism -- 22. Daoism and the Daodejing -- 23. The three caverns of Daoist scriptures -- 24. Related traditions: Shinto and Tenrikyo -- disc 5: 25. Christian testaments Old and New -- 26. Gospels and Acts -- 27. Letter and Apocalypse -- 28. Apocryphal gospels -- 29. Related traditions: Mormon scriptures -- 30. Islam and scriptural recitation -- disc 6: 31. Holy Qur'an -- 32. Hadith and Sufism -- 33. Related traditions: Baha'i scriptures -- 34.. Abandoned scriptures: Egyptian and Mayan -- 35. Secular scriptures: U.S. Constitution -- 36. Heavenly books, earthly connection.
DVD ; NTSC.

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SERIES
Great courses. Religion.



PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 288 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1629970425
9781629970424

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hardy, Grant, 1961-
Teaching Company.

SUBJECTS
Sacred books.
Religions.
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.