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100	1		_aSugirtharajah, R. S. _q(Rasiah S.), _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Bible and Asia : _bfrom the pre-Christian era to the postcolonial age / _cR.S. Sugirtharajah.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2013.
264		4	_c©2013
300			_a1 online resource (303 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction -- _t1. Merchandise, moralities, and poetics of Aryans, Dravidians, and Israelites -- _t2. Colonial bureaucrats and the search for older testaments -- _t3. Enlisting Christian texts for protest in the empire -- _t4. A Buddhist ascetic and his maverick misreadings of the Bible -- _t5. Paul the Roman in Asia -- _t6. Exegesis in Eastern climes -- _t7. Between the lines of Asian fiction -- _tConclusion -- _tNotes -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIndex of scriptural references -- _tGeneral index.
520			_aThough 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.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
590			_aMaster record variable field(s) change: 072, 650
630	0	0	_aBible _xCriticism, interpretation, etc. _zAsia.
650		7	_aBIBLES _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION _xBiblical Reference _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION _xBiblical Reference _xHandbooks. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY _zAsia _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		4	_aChurch History.
650		4	_aReligion, Jewish Studies, Theology.
650		4	_aTheology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies.
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655		4	_aElectronic books.
773	0	8	_iDruckausg.: _aSugirtharajah, Rasiah S. _tBible and Asia.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.). _tBible and Asia. _dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013 _z9780674049079 _w(DLC) 2013009720 _w(OCoLC)840460760
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