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Sacred Books of the East. The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious texts, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.
Most Protestant Bibles include the Hebrew Bible's 24 books (the protocanonical books) divided differently (into 39 books) and the 27-book New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some denominations (e.g. Anglicanism) also include the 14 books of the biblical apocrypha between the Old Testament and the New Testament, for a total of 80 books.
Beyond Christianity, according to the Oxford World Encyclopedia, the term scripture has referred to a text accepted to contain the "sacred writings of a religion", [5] while The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions states it refers to a text "having [religious] authority and often collected into an accepted canon". [6]
Roxburghe Club Books. [143] Sacred books and early literature of the East [144] Saga Library. [145] Six volume series published 1891–1905. A collection of Scandinavian sagas in Icelandic covering history, folklore, and language by British translator William Morris (1834–1896) [146] and Icelandic scholar Eiríkr Magnússon (1833–1913). [147]
Early Bronze Age: 3rd millennium BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classical Sumerian ). [ 1 ] Certain literary texts are difficult to date, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead , which was recorded in the Papyrus of Ani around 1240 BC, but other versions of the book probably date from ...
A late 3rd century A.D. establishment, was a great early Christian library. Through Origen of Alexandria and the scholarly priest Pamphilus of Caesarea , the school won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30,000 manuscripts: Gregory of Nazianzus , Basil the Great , Jerome and ...
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He directed the preparation of the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations which continued after his death. Müller became a professor at Oxford University , [ 3 ] first of modern languages, [ 4 ] then of comparative philology [ 3 ] in a position founded for him, and which he held for the rest of his life.