The Zhouyi Bronze Age progenitor to the Yijing (I Ching) or Book of Changes was a divination
manual created and utilized by the early rulers of the Zhou dynasty (founded 1046 BCE). This
new translation dispenses with 20th century attempts to discredit tradition and endeavors to
recover the context of its early Zhou dynasty origins. As such interpretation of its language
is based strictly upon pre-Confucian sources to avoid the anachronistic readings that accrued
to the text in its evolution from a book of divination to a book of philosophy. For the first
time in the book's translation history its judgment and line texts have been clearly labeled
according to their content - either omen counsel or prognostication - in order to clarify
their divinatory function. Furthermore each hexagram is accompanied by a line-by-line
commentary providing detailed background for the situations presented in the texts and
explicating metaphorical language and technical syntax. The general public will appreciate the
narrative cohesion of the commentaries while the specialist will welcome the appended Chinese
text. Finally the book also provides the reader with explanations of the myth legend and
history in the formative stages of the Zhouyi's creation and gives comprehensive information on
how to cast the oracle and interpret the resulting reading.Titel ist momentan vergriffen
Neudruck ist in Vorbereitung.
