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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.
Subject Area - subject area of the book; Topic - topic (within the subject area) Collection - belongs to a collection listed in the table above; Date - date (year range) book was written/composed; Reign of - king/ruler in whose reign this book was written (occasionally a book could span reigns) Reign Age - extent of the reign
Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual authors).
Ginza Rabba (The Great Treasure, also known as The Book of Adam) (DC 22) Qulasta (Canonical Prayerbook) (DC 53) (see also list of Qulasta prayers) Sidra d-Nišmata (Book of Souls) (first part of the Qulasta) ʿNiania (The Responses) (part of the Qulasta) Drašâ d-Jōhânā (Mandaean Book of John, also known as The Book of Kings)
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.
The Rigveda (Vedic chant) manuscript in Devanagari, a scripture of Hinduism, dated 1500–1000 BCE.It is the oldest religious text in any Indo-European language. A Sephardic Torah scroll, containing the first section of the Hebrew Bible, rolled to the first paragraph of the Shema.
The 8th and 9th book of the Denkard give an overview of the Avesta as it was available at the time. Whereas the 8th book lists the content, the 9th book provides a lengthy summary on a number of its nasks [ 6 ] In addition, the Rivayats , a series of epistles from the 15th - 17th century, also list its content but do not provide further summaries.
avesta.org: translation by James Darmesteter and L. H. Mills forms part of the Sacred Books of the East series, but is now regarded as obsolete. "Zend-Avesta" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. The British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts – Zoroastrianism