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Anyone here know any more books like these three?
The first is an anthology of western (majority Christian European, with a couple Islamic) sources discussing Buddha and Buddhism, dated from the second century AD to 1844.
The second is a collection of quotes and stories about Jesus from Sufi mystics.
The third is an anthology of texts from other religions (besides Christianity), also discussing Jesus.
There's not really a name for this type of book, but I call them cultural reinterpretation books. Any example of a foreign culture radically reinterpreting the more common story of someone or something (whether due to a different belief system or simple misunderstanding) is very interesting to me.

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it unfortunately hasn't been translated, but there's a history book from Japan from 1861 which portrays the US founding fathers like they are Japanese legendary figures. Pic related is John Adams

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close enough

>> No.21724304

>>21724127
>calls him st. paul
nice try schlomo.

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>>21722523
Here you go. Christ the Etern Tao.
What else comes to my mind is the work of Paramahamsa Yogananda.
His Second Coming of Christ, a 2 volume, 1000 page long Yogic interpretation of the Bible.
His "Christian Yoga", a practical Yoga interpretation of the book of Relevation (not that much about Jesus tho). And his "Yoga of Jesus".
I know Swami Vivekananda also wrote spoke on Jesus. No full book but a Hindu view on Jesus from one of his lectures. Its a quick read. Here:

https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_4/lectures_and_discourses/christ_the_messenger.htm

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>>21722821
Always be the American Japan believes you are

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>>21722821
Reminder that this actually happpened

>> No.21724405

>>21722821
Plz tell me there's a whole chapter on Andrew Jackson in knife fights and nuking the federal reserve, the ton of cheese, his fucking cussmouth parrot, and all the crazy shit I expect from being American. It already reads like a good jidai tale.

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>>21722523
Somewhat relevant
Assmann - Moses the Egyptian
Karttunen - India and the Hellenistic World
Stoneman - The Greek Experience of India
Bar-Kochva - The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature
Cook - The Interpretation of the New Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism
Runciman - The Medieval Manichee

>> No.21724419

Damn the Holy Spirit
Damn Jesus
Damn Allah
Damn Muhammad
Damn Ali
Damn Moses
Damn John the Baptist
Damn King Solomon
And most of all,
Damn you

>> No.21724427

>>21724419
Damn YHVH/Elohim
Damn Jacob
Forgot those

>> No.21724929

>>21724419
>>21724427
>with knowledge as my weapon, I am quite the opponent

>> No.21724941

>>21724377
>>21724410
thank you both kindly

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>>21724127
Caesar's Messiah is better

>> No.21724964

>>21724962
this also sounds like gay conspiracyizing

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>>21722523