WORLD RELIGION BIBLIOGRAPHY: SACRED TEXTS

General

•   Easwaran, Eknath.  Classics of Indian Spirituality.  Nilgiri Press, 2007.

•   Novak, Philip, ed.  World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions.  New York: Continuum, 1995.

•   Smart, Ninian and Hecht, Richard, eds.  Sacred Texts of the World: A Universal Anthology.  Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998.

•   Wilson, Andrew, ed.  World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts.  St. Paul: Paragon House, 1995.

Judaism

• Babylonian Talmud, trans. and ed. I. Epstein.  London: Soncino Press, 1948-61.

Christianity

•   Barnstone, Willis and Meyer, Marvin, eds.  Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded.  Shambhala, 2009.

• Layton, Bentley, trans.  Gnostic Scriptures.  New Haven: Yale, 1995.

•   Robinson, James.  Nag Hammadi Library: The Definitive Translation of The Gnostic Scriptures Complete in One Volume.  New York: Harperone, 1990.

Islam

• Koran, trans. N.J. Dawood.  New York: Penguin, 1997 (1956).

Hinduism

• Kunst, A. and Shastri, J.L.  Puranas in Translation.  Delhi: Banarsidass, 1969.

•   Menon, Ramesh.  Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol. I.  IUniverse, 2006.

•   _____.  Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol. 2.  IUniverse, 2006.

•   _____.  Ramayana.  Fsg Adult, 2004.

• Miller, Barbara Stoler, ed. and trans.  Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War.  New York: Columbia, 1986.

•   Penguin Classics: Bhagavad Gita, trans. Juan Mascaro.  New York: Penguin Classic, 2002.

•   Penguin Classics: The Mahabharata, trans. J. Smith.  New York: Penguin Classic, 2009.

•   Penguin Classics: Rig Veda, ed. Wendy Doniger.  New York: Penguin Classic, 2005.

•   Penguin Classics: Upanishads, trans. Valerie Roebuck.  New York: Penguin Classic, 2004.

•   Penguin Classics: Ramayana, trans. and ed. R.K. Narayan.  New York: Penguin Classic, 2007.

Buddhism

• Penguin Classic: Buddhist Scriptures, ed. Lopez, Donald.  New York: Penguin Classic, 2004.

•   Easwaran, Eknath.  Dhammapada.  Nilgiri Press, 2007.

Other Religions

•   Cleary, Thomas, ed. and trans.  Essential Tao: An Initiation Into the Heart of Taoism Through the Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang-Tzu.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

•   Confucius, Analects, trans. Simon Leys.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

• I Ching, Or the Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm and C.F. Baynes.  Princeton: Princeton, 1967.

•   Lao Tzu.  Tao Te Ching, trans. Jonathan Star.  Tarcher, 2003.

Miscellaneous

•   Wise, Michael O.  Dead Sea Scrolls.  New York: Harperone, 2005.

Secondary Works

•   Lim, Timothy.  Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction.  New York: Oxford, 2005.

• Prime, Ranchor.  Ramayana: A Journey.  Welcome Rain, 1997.