Jesus in Asia / / R. S. Sugirtharajah.
Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in seventh-century China and seventeenth-century India, encouraged by the patronage and openness of the Chinese and Indian imperial courts. While the Western...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Asian Search for the Historical Jesus
- Jesus in the Sutras, Stele, and Suras
- The Heavenly Elder Brother
- A Judean Jnana Guru
- The Nonexistent Jesus
- A Jaffna Man’s Jesus
- Jesus as a Jain Tirthankara
- An Upanishadic Mystic
- A Minjung Messiah
- Jesus in a Kimono
- Conclusion: Our Jesus, their Jesus
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index