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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.
Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History, originally published as Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a wallchart which graphically depicts a Biblical genealogy alongside a timeline composed of historic sources from the history of humanity from 4004 BC to modern times.
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 ...
[24] [25] The terms sacred text and religious text are not necessarily interchangeable in that some religious texts are believed to be sacred because of the belief in some theistic religions such as the Abrahamic religions that the text is divinely or supernaturally revealed or divinely inspired, or in non-theistic religions such as some Indian ...
Chinese Classics of the "Sacred Books of the East" most of which were translated by Legge; Smith, Carl (1986), "A sense of history (Part I)", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 26: 144–264. “The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and its characteristics”, English translation by James Legge. Scalable text on white, grey or black ...
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
The Levant and Canaan. Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology.Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites from the Ancient Near East and especially the Holy Land (also known as Land of Israel and Canaan), from biblical times.
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]