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Volume I | |
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The Ancient World Prologue: Primary Sources and How We Read Them | |
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What Is History? | |
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Primary Sources: Their Value and Limitations | |
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Examining the Sources | |
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You and the Sources | |
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Interpreting Columbus's | |
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Letter Unwritten | |
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Sources Interpreting the Woodcut | |
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The First Civilizations Mesopotamia: The Land of Two Rivers | |
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The Search for Eternal Life in Mesopotamia | |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh Bringing Order to an Uncertain World | |
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The Judgments of Hammurabi Egypt: The Land of Two Lands | |
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The Search for Eternal Life in Egypt | |
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Three Funerary Texts Making a Living in Ancient Egypt | |
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A Scribal Exercise Book China: The Land of the Yellow River | |
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The Mandate of Heaven | |
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The Classic of History Zhou Viewed from Above and Below | |
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The Classic of Odes Mute Testimony Bringing in the Sheaves | |
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A Tassili Rock Painting Cultural Impressions | |
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Indus, Mesopotamian, and Cretan Seals Sacred Kingship Along the Nile | |
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Two Temple Reliefs The Were-Jaguar | |
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Four Olmec Statuettes | |
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The Indo-Europeans Life, Death, and the Gods in Aryan India | |
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The Rig Veda A Journey to the Underworld | |
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Homer, The Odyssey The Hebrews and Their Neighbors | |
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Establishing a Covenant with Humanity | |
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The Book of Genesis Establishing a Covenant with the Chosen People | |
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The Book of Deuteronomy Keeping and Breaking the Covenant | |
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The Book of Judges 3 | |
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Transcendental Reality: Developing the Spiritual | |
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Traditions of India and Southwest Asia: 800200 B.C.E | |
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The Emergence of Brahminical Hinduism | |
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The Hindu Search for Divine Reality | |
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The Upanishads Dharma: The Imperative of Caste Law | |
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The Bhagavad Gita Challengers of Caste: The Mahavira and the Buddha | |
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A Call to the Heroic Life | |
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The Book of Good Conduct The Path to Enlightenment | |
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The Buddha, Two Lessons Admitting Women to the Mendicant Life | |
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The Discipline Basket Persians, Israelites, and Their Gods | |
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The Struggle Between Good and Evil | |
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Zarathustra, Gathas A New Covenant for All Peoples | |
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The Book of Isaiah 4 | |
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The Secular Made Sacred: Developing the Humanistic | |
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Traditions of China and Hellas: 600200 B.C.E | |
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China: Thought in Search of Harmony | |
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Daoism: The Way That Is and Is Not | |
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Laozi, The Classic of the Way and Virtue Confucianism: The Way of the Superior Man | |
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Confucius, The Analects Legalism in Theory and Practice: The Way of the State | |
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Han Fei, The Writings of Master Han Fei, and Sima Qian | |
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The Records of the Grand Historian Yin and Yang and the Dao of Good Health | |
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The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine Hellenic Civilization: A Rational Inquiry into Life Hellenic Medicine | |
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Hippocrates | |
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On the Sacred Disease | |
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The Athenian as Citizen | |
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Thucydides | |
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The History of the Peloponnesian War | |
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An Alienated Woman | |
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Euripides | |
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Medea Socrates and the Laws of Athens | |
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Plato, Crito Art and the Human Form | |
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Three Hellenic Works of Art 5 | |
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Regional Empires and Afro-Eurasian Interchange: 300 B.C.E.500 C.E | |
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The Greco-Roman World Images of the Hellenistic World | |
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Four Hellenistic Sculptures Rome Viewed from the Underworld | |
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Virgil, The Aeneid Three Women in the Age of the Pax Romana | |
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Three Funerary Monuments Han China | |
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Establishing an Imperial Confucian Academy | |
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Sima Qian | |
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The Records of the Grand Historian | |
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A Woman's Place as Viewed by a Female Confucian | |
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Ban Zhao | |
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Lessons for Women India in the Age of Empires | |
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The Softening Effects of Dharma | |
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Asoka, Rock and Pillar Edicts Sacred Law in Classical India | |
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The Laws of Manu Gupta India as Viewed by a Chinese Monk | |
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Faxian | |
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Travels in India and Ceylon Long-Distance Travel and Exchange | |
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Faxian's Homeward Voyage | |
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Faxian | |
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Travels The Transit of Images | |
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Along Trade Routes | |
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Five Robed Statues | |
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Faith, Devotion, and Salvation: Great World Religions to 1500 C.E. 6 | |
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New Developments in Three Ancient Religions Hinduism: The Way of Devotion Vishnu, Destroyer of Sin | |
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The Vishnu Purana Shiva, Auspicious Destroyer | |
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Shiva Nataraja Mahayana Buddhism: A Religion of Infinite Compassion | |
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Perceiver of the World's Sounds: A Universal Bodhisattva | |
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The Lotus Sutra Images of Compassion | |
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Three Bodhisattvas Rabbinical Judaism A Defense of the Law 46. Flavius Josephus | |
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Against Apion Persecution and Messianic Hope 47. Maimonides | |
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Letter to Yemen 7 | |
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Christianity: Conquering the World for Christ | |
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The Foundations of Christianity Becoming Spiritually Perfect | |
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The Gospel of St. Matthew The Path to Righteousness: The Law or Faith? | |
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St. Paul, The Epistle to the Romans Christianity and the Roman World Persecution and Deliverance | |
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Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History The Christian Empire | |
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The Theodosian Code The Christian Emperor | |
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The Barberini Ivory The Origins of Christian Monasticism | |
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St. Ephraem of Edessa, The Life of St. Mary the Harlot Religious Exchange and Interchange Gnostic Christianity: The Secret Knowledge of Jesus | |
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The Gospel of Thomas Manichaeism: Enlightening the World | |
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The Parable About the World-Ocean 8. Islam: Universal Submission to God | |
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The Foundations of Islamic Life | |
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The Word of God | |
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The Qur'an The Tales of Tradition | |
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Imam Nawawi, Gardens of the Righteous Muhammad's Night Journey and Ascent to Heaven | |
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Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life of the Messenger of God Shari'a: God's Law | |
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Ibn Abi Zayd al-Kayrawani, The Treatise on Law Variety and Unity in Islam God's Martyrs: The Party of Ali | |
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Ibn Babawayh al-Saduq, Creed Concerning the Imams Sufi Mysticism | |
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Abu Hamid Muhammed al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness An African Pilgrim to Mecca | |
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Mahmud Kati, The Chronicle of the Seeker Islam and Unbelievers The Dhimma | |
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Ibn Muslama's Pact with the Christians of Tiflis and The Pact of Umar The Jewish Community of Twelfth-Century Baghdad | |
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Benjamin of Tudela, Book of Travels Fourteenth-Century Hindu Dhimmis | |
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The Deeds of Sultan Firuz Shah | |
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Continuity, Change and Interchange: 5001500 9 | |
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Asia: Change in the Context of Tradition | |
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Japan: Creating a Distinctive Civilization History in Service to State-Building | |
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Yasumaro, Preface to Records of Ancient Matters | |
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An Aristocratic Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan | |
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Murasaki Shikibu, Diary The Ideal Samurai | |
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Chronicle of the Grand Pacification China: The Ages of Tang and Song | |
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Open to the World: Christianity in Tang China | |
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Bishop Adam, The Christian Monument Troubles in Late Tang | |
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Du Fu, Poems The Dao of Agriculture in Song China | |
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Chen Pu, The Craft of Farming Thirteenth-Century Hangzhou | |
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A Record of Musings on the Eastern Capital | |