05125cam a2200769Ii 4500 ocn865853143 OCoLC 20200709055817.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 131108t20132013mau ob 001 0 eng d E7B eng rda pn E7B OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCF N$T YDXCP ZXC JSTOR EBLCP UIU OCLCQ COCUF MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ IOG DEGRU DEBSZ U3W EZ9 WAU 862076882 881296442 961625256 962572251 979622508 992898182 9780674726468 (e-book) 0674726464 (e-book) 9780674049079 (cloth) 0674049071 (cloth) 10.4159/harvard.9780674726468 doi 575631 (N$T) (OCoLC)865853143 (OCoLC)862076882 (OCoLC)881296442 (OCoLC)961625256 (OCoLC)962572251 (OCoLC)979622508 (OCoLC)992898182 22573/ctt65v787 JSTOR a------ BS511.3 .S84 2013eb BIB 000000 bisacsh REL 006160 bisacsh REL 006680 bisacsh HIS003000 bisacsh HIS054000 bisacsh REL015000 bisacsh 220.095 23 MAIN Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.), author. The Bible and Asia : from the pre-Christian era to the postcolonial age / R.S. Sugirtharajah. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013. ©2013 1 online resource (303 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction -- 1. Merchandise, moralities, and poetics of Aryans, Dravidians, and Israelites -- 2. Colonial bureaucrats and the search for older testaments -- 3. Enlisting Christian texts for protest in the empire -- 4. A Buddhist ascetic and his maverick misreadings of the Bible -- 5. Paul the Roman in Asia -- 6. Exegesis in Eastern climes -- 7. Between the lines of Asian fiction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index of scriptural references -- General index. Though the Bible is a product of West Asia, its influence on Europe and the Americas has received far more attention than its complex career in the East. R.S. Sugirtharajah corrects this imbalance with an expansive new study of Asia's subversive and idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible. This is the story of missionaries, imperialists, exegetes, reformers, and nationalists who molded Biblical texts according to their own needs in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China. When the Bible reached east and south Asia in the third century CE, its Christian scriptures already bore traces of Asian commodities and Indian moral stories. In China, the Bible merged with the teachings of Buddha and Lao Tzu to produce the Jesus Sutras. As he recounts the history of how Christianity was influenced by other Asian religions, Sugirtharajah deftly highlights the controversial issue of Buddhist and Vedic influence on Biblical religion. Once used to justify European rule in Asia, the Bible has also served to promote the spiritual salvation of women, outcasts, and untouchables. The Bible has left a literary mark on Asia in two ways: through its influence on Asian writers and through the reinvigoration of modern Asian vernaculars when proselytizing missionaries introduced Western print culture to the East. In English. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 072, 650 Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. Asia. BIBLES General. bisacsh RELIGION Biblical Reference General. bisacsh RELIGION Biblical Reference Handbooks. bisacsh HISTORY Asia General. bisacsh Church History. Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology. Theology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Electronic books. Druckausg.: Sugirtharajah, Rasiah S. Bible and Asia. Print version: Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.). Bible and Asia. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013 9780674049079 (DLC) 2013009720 (OCoLC)840460760 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=575631 Concordia University of Edmonton Access http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=575631 from EBSCO Religion Collection EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3301359 ebrary EBRY ebr10791249 EBSCOhost EBSC 575631 YBP Library Services YANK 10794037 De Gruyter DEGR 9780674726468 92 N$T 53066 53066