The Portable World Bible

, by Various (Author); Ballou, Robert O. (Editor)

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Copyright: 6/1/1977

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The Portable World Bible presents the fundamental tenets of the world's basic source religions. Contemporary readers are offered, in concise, authoritative translations, the religious thought of the ages, selected, interpreted, and arranged in view of modern man's quest for ultimate truths and values. Robert O. Ballou, the volume's editor, has omitted mere stories, history, and ceremonial detail; what remains in every case is the essence of religion, set down with a clarity and simplicity never before achieved. The Portable World Bible is an unparalleled work of poetic and ethical inspiration, a book that makes a deep appeal to the mind and spirit.

General Introduction

(14)

The Hindu

The Worshippers of Brahma

(78)

SELECTIONS FROM HINDU SCRIPTURES:

The Rig-Veda

Creation

(1)

Dialogue Between Yama and Yami

(1)

To Varuna

(1)

To Agni, in Praise of Night and Day

(1)

To Liberality

(1)

The Atharva-Veda

A Charm Against Fear

(1)

One Common Spirit

(1)

To Heaven and Earth

(1)

The Satapatha Brahmana

The Creation of Prajapati and the Gods

(2)

The Upanishads

The Universal Self

(3)

The House of Death

(8)

How Many Gods?

(1)

The Light of Man

(1)

My Self Within the Heart

(1)

The Sun Is Brahman

(1)

The Education of Svetaketu

(2)

The Power of God

(2)

The Bhagavad Gita

Revolt Against War

(3)

The Rule of Action

(2)

The Rule of Wisdom

(1)

The Nature of God

(1)

The Lord of All

(1)

The Rule of Devotion

(2)

The Good Man and the Evil

(1)

The Vishnu Purana

The General Duties of Man

(1)

The Garuda Purana

Of Associates

(2)

Karma

(1)

A Duty to Children

(1)

The Markandeya Purana

Sumati Instructs His Father

(3)

The Creation of Castes

(1)

Sankaracharya's Atma Bodha

Knowledge of Spirit

(1)

The Hitopadesa

Proverbs

(2)

The Works of Sri Ramakrishna

Many Paths to the One God

(9)

The Saints and the Saviours

(1)

The Protection of God

(1)

The Converted Snake

(1)

The Aspects of God

(4)

The Buddhist

The Buddha and the World He Sought to Save

(68)

SELECTIONS FROM BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES:

Early Buddhist Books

The Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness

113

(1)

The Nine Incapabilities

114

(1)

The Aryan Eightfold Path

115

(3)

Questions Which Tend Not to Edification

118

(1)

Discussion of Dependent Origination

119

(2)

On Theology

121

(2)

The Fall and Rise of Social Behaviour

123

(7)

A Sermon to the Monks

130

(4)

The Dhammapada

The Twin Verses

134

(2)

Thought

136

(1)

The Fool

136

(1)

Punishment

137

(1)

Old Age

137

(1)

Anger

138

(1)

Proverbs

139

(3)

Buddaghosha's Parables

The Story of Kisagotami

142

(2)

The Lotus of the True Law

The Wheel of the Law

144

(4)

The Diamond Sutra

The Transcendant Wisdom

148

(4)

Asvaghosha's Awakening of Faith

Asvaghosha's Doctrine of Suchness

152

(3)

The Tibetan Doctrine

``Elegant Sayings'' of the Lamas

155

(8)

The Parsi

The Religion Which Might Have Been Ours

163

(56)

SELECTIONS FROM ZOROASTRIAN SCRIPTURES:

The Bundahis

The Order of Creation

173

(1)

The Ancestry of the World

173

(4)

The Flood

177

(2)

The Vendidad

The First Man

179

(2)

The Evil Winters

181

(3)

The Zendavesta

The One of Whom Questions Are Asked

184

(1)

The Fatherhood of God

185

(1)

The Mazdayasnian Confession

186

(1)

The Earth

187

(3)

Reward of the Faithful

190

(1)

Hymn to the Sun

191

(1)

The Fravashis of the Faithful

192

(2)

The Abodes of the Soul

194

(1)

Of the Dog

195

(3)

The Pahlavi Texts

Instructions to Priests

198

(3)

The Righteous Man

201

(1)

The Chinvad Bridge

202

(1)

The Nature of Heaven

203

(1)

The Nature of Hell

204

(1)

The Two Regions

205

(1)

The Resurrection

205

(3)

The Gathas

Exhortation to the Faithful

208

(2)

A Prayer for Guidance

210

(3)

The Choice Between Right and Wrong

213

(6)

The Jew and the Christian

219

(218)

SELECTIONS FROM JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES:

Old Testament:

Genesis

Creation

235

(2)

The Garden of Eden

237

(2)

The Fall of Man

239

(2)

The Murder of Abel

241

(1)

The Making of the Ark

242

(2)

The Flood

244

(2)

God's Covenant with Noah

246

(1)

The Tower of Babel

247

(1)

God's Covenant with Abraham

248

(2)

The Birth of Isaac

250

(1)

Esau and Jacob

251

(1)

The Family of Jacob

252

(1)

Joseph Is Sold by His Brothers

253

(3)

Joseph in Egypt

256

(1)

Joseph's Brothers Go into Egypt

257

(4)

Joseph and His Brothers Are Reconciled

261

(3)

The Death of Joseph

264

(1)

Exodus

The Beginning of Persecution

265

(1)

The Birth of Moses

266

(1)

The Burning Bush and the Name of God

267

(1)

The Passover Is Instituted

268

(3)

They Cross the Red Sea

271

(2)

God Gives Moses the Ten Commandments

273

(1)

Further Laws

274

(1)

Moses Is Given the Tablets of Stone

275

(1)

Leviticus

Various Laws

276

(2)

Numbers

The Lord's Blessing

278

(1)

The Cloud and Fire Lead

279

(1)

The Water of Meribah

279

(2)

The Death of Aaron

281

(1)

Joshua Appointed to Succeed Moses

281

(1)

Exogamy Is Discouraged

282

(1)

Deuteronomy

For a Sign upon Thine Hand

283

(1)

The Law of Release

283

(1)

Trial and Punishment

284

(1)

The Coming of a Prophet Foretold

284

(1)

The Law of False Witness

285

(1)

Of Sanctuary

285

(1)

The Law of Divorce

286

(1)

Of Master and Servant

286

(1)

Of Individual Responsibility

286

(1)

The Duty of an Husband's Brother

287

(1)

The Cursed of Israel

287

(1)

The Blessed of Israel

287

(2)

The Death of Moses

289

(1)

The Book of Joshua

Joshua Instructs His People

290

(1)

The Death of Joshua

291

(1)

The Book of Judges

The Anger of the Lord

292

(1)

The First Book of Kings

The Divided Kingdom

293

(3)

Elijah Proves God

296

(3)

The Book of Job

What Is the Almighty?

299

(10)

The Psalms

The Godly and the Ungodly (Psalm i)

309

(1)

Prophecy of a Son of God (Psalm ii)

309

(1)

When I Consider Thy Heavens (Psalm viii)

310

(1)

Hymn of Trust (Psalm xi)

311

(1)

Who Walks Uprightly (Psalm xv)

311

(1)

The Glory of God (Psalm xix)

312

(1)

A Cry of Despair (Psalm xxii)

313

(2)

The Shepherd's Psalm (Psalm xxiii)

315

(1)

The King of Glory (Psalm xxiv)

316

(1)

A Hymn of Faith (Psalm xxvii)

316

(2)

The Gentleness of God (Psalm ciii)

318

(1)

The Bounty of God (Psalm civ)

319

(2)

Whence Help Cometh (Psalm cxxi)

321

(1)

He Giveth His Beloved Sleep (Psalm cxxvii)

322

(1)

The Goodness of Unity (Psalm cxxxiii)

322

(1)

The Book of Proverbs

Proberbs

323

(3)

The Unsatisfied and the Wonderful

326

(1)

Ecclesiastes

The Vanity of Man

327

(6)

The Pre-Exilic Prophets

From the Book of Amos

333

(1)

From the Book of Hosea

334

(1)

From the Book of Micah

335

(2)

From the Book of the First Isaiah

337

(2)

From the Book of Jeremiah

339

(1)

The Book of the Second Isaiah

A Voice in the Wilderness

340

(3)

The Omnipotence of God

343

(1)

A Promise of Joy and Peace

344

(2)

New Testament:

The Gospels

The Life of Christ

The Miraculous Conception of Jesus

346

(1)

The Birth of Jesus

347

(1)

The Genealogy of Jesus

348

(1)

The Flight into Egypt

349

(2)

The Baptism of Jesus

351

(3)

Jesus Is Tempted by the Devil

354

(1)

The Healer

355

(1)

The First Disciples

356

(1)

A Crippled Man Is Healed

357

(2)

To Keep Holy the Sabbath

359

(2)

What Manner of Man Is This?

361

(2)

The Twelve Apostles Named

363

(1)

The Rock of the Christian Church

363

(2)

The Loaves and Fishes

365

(1)

The Transfiguration

366

(1)

Suffer the Little Children

367

(1)

Announcement of Destiny

367

(1)

The Woman Taken in Adultery

367

(1)

Lazarus Arises from Death

368

(3)

Entry into Jerusalem

371

(1)

The Price of a Saviour

372

(1)

The Last Supper

372

(3)

Gethsemane

375

(2)

The Trial of Jesus

377

(1)

Condemnation

378

(1)

The Crucifixion

379

(3)

Burial

382

(1)

The Tomb Is Sealed

383

(1)

The Resurrection

383

(2)

The Risen Christ

385

(1)

Sermons and Saying of Jesus

The Sermon on the Mount

385

(8)

Invitation to Christ

393

(1)

A Rebuke to Doubters

393

(1)

Of Forms and Meanings

394

(1)

The Price of Salvation

395

(1)

Until Seventy Times Seven

396

(1)

Of Marriage

397

(1)

Of Riches

398

(1)

The Great Commandments

399

(1)

Jesus Rebukes the Scribes and Pharisees

399

(2)

Second Coming

401

(3)

The Birth of the Spirit

404

(1)

The Bread of Life

405

(1)

The True Vine

406

(1)

Of the Sower, the Tares, and the Mustard Seed

406

(4)

Of the Good Samaritan

410

(1)

Of One That Layeth Up Treasure

411

(1)

Of the Two Men Who Prayed

411

(1)

The Acts of the Apostles

The Founding of the Christian Church

412

(2)

Saul's Conversion

414

(2)

Peter's Vision of the Gentiles

416

(1)

Paul and Barnabas Turn to the Gentiles

417

(2)

The Epistles

To the Jew and Also to the Gentile

419

(4)

Paul Instructs the Christian Church

423

(4)

Walk in the Spirit

427

(1)

One Lord

427

(1)

Hold Fast That Which Is Good

428

(1)

The Power of Faith

429

(3)

The Insufficiency of Faith Alone

432

(1)

Love Not the World

433

(4)

The Moslem

``There Is No God but Allah''

437

(46)

SELECTIONS FROM MOHAMMEDAN SCRIPTURES:

The Koran

Clots of Blood

451

(1)

The Enwrapped

452

(1)

The Most High

453

(1)

Those Who Stint

454

(1)

The Mountain

454

(2)

The Poets

456

(1)

God Has No Son

457

(1)

The Spider

457

(2)

Relation to Jews and Christians

459

(5)

Moral and Ritual Prescriptions

464

(2)

The Holy War

466

(1)

Other Prophets

467

(1)

The Table

468

(2)

The Masnavi

A Certain Person in the Time of 'Umar---May God Be Pleased with Him!---Imagines He Sees the New Moon

470

(1)

A Governor Orders a Man to Dig Up from the Road a Bramble-Bush Which He Has Planted

471

(1)

The Being of Man Is Like a Forest

472

(1)

``Paradise Is Surrounded by Things Unpleasant to Us; the Fires Are Surrounded by Our Carnal Desires''

473

(1)

John the Baptist---on Him Be Peace---in His Mother's Womb Inclines in Worship Before Jesus---on Him Be Peace!

474

(1)

The Contention as to Grapes of Four Persons, Each of Whom Knows Grapes by a Different Name

475

(1)

The Forty-Two Traditions of An-Nawawi

Selections

476

(7)

The Confucianist

Master Kung

483

(50)

SELECTIONS FROM CONFUCIANIST SCRIPTURES:

The Li Ki

The Nature of the Universe and Man

492

(1)

The Feelings of Men

493

(1)

The Functions of the Ruler

494

(1)

The Shih King

The Song of How-tsieh

495

(1)

Plea to an Ancestor

496

(1)

How Vast Is God!

497

(1)

In Praise of Ancestors

497

(1)

On Letting Alone

498

(1)

Admonition

498

(1)

The Analects of Confucius

Selections

498

(11)

The Great Learning

The Root of Everything

509

(1)

The Doctrine of the Steadfast Mean

The Middle Way

510

(5)

The Works of Mencius

The Function of Government

515

(3)

Division of Labour

518

(2)

The Flood

520

(1)

The Root of the State

520

(1)

The Man with the Heart of a Child

521

(1)

Of Friendships and Gifts

522

(1)

Man's Nature Is Good

523

(2)

Convention and Emergency

525

(1)

All Things Are Complete in Us

526

(2)

The Book of Filial Piety

The Three Powers

528

(1)

The Question of Remonstrance

529

(4)

The Taoist

The Way

533

(44)

SELECTIONS FROM TAOIST SCRIPTURES:

The Tao-Te King

The Mother of All Things

542

(1)

Government by Non-Action

542

(1)

The Highest Goodness

543

(1)

Letting Alone

543

(1)

Favour and Disgrace

544

(1)

The Perfect Man of Tao

544

(1)

Do Away with Learning

545

(1)

What Difference Between Yea and Nay?

545

(1)

Be Humble

546

(1)

The Eternal Tao

547

(1)

He Who Assists with Tao

547

(1)

He Who Knows Others

548

(1)

The Nameless Simplicity

548

(1)

Without Going Out of the Door

549

(1)

The Sage Has No Self

549

(1)

The Great Way

549

(1)

Blunt All That Is Sharp

550

(1)

Three Treasures

550

(1)

The Best Soldier

551

(1)

The Strength of Weakness

551

(1)

Return Love for Hatred

551

(1)

The Works of Chuang Tze

All Things Are One

552

(2)

No Absolute

554

(1)

The Dream and the Dreamer

555

(2)

The Nature of God

557

(1)

The Degradation of Horses and Men

557

(2)

On Letting Alone

559

(1)

The Tao of God

560

(1)

The Circling Sky

561

(1)

Confucius and Lao Tze

561

(1)

Conceit

562

(1)

The Choice of Chuang Tze

563

(1)

The Death of Chuang Tze's Wife

564

(1)

The Wisdom of the Skull

564

(1)

The Secret of Life

565

(1)

Confucius at the Cataract

566

(1)

The Impossibility of Possessing

567

(1)

All Things After Their Kinds

567

(1)

Where Tao Is

568

(1)

The Wise Tender of Horses

569

(1)

Chuang Tze on Death

570

(1)

The Way to Tao

570

(7)

Glossary

577

(10)

Index

587

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The Portable World Bible

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