: Exploring Traditions of Faith Through Primary Sources
\ David M. Fahey, editor in chief.
Dallas, Tex.
: Schlager Group
, 2011.
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:ill.
Milestone documents
Bibliography
Index
Volume 1 : 2404 bce-200 ce -- Pyramid texts -- "Instruction of Ptahhotep" -- "Hymn to the Nile" -- Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer -- Rig Veda -- Egyptian Book of the Dead -- Enuma Elish -- Bible : Exodus -- Bible : Genesis -- "Great Hymn to the Aten" -- Epic of Gilgamesh -- Noble Eightfold Path -- Jain Sutras -- Upanishads -- Confucius : Analects -- Orphic Tablets and Hymns -- Dao De Jing -- Book of Enoch -- Cleanthes : "Hymn to Zeus" -- Han Feizi -- Bhagavad Gita -- Book of Rites -- Laws of Manu -- Pseudo-Sibylline Oracles -- Lotus Sutra -- Lucretius : On the Nature of Things -- Gospel of Thomas -- Bible : Revelation -- Prolemy : "Letter to Flora" -- Pirke Avot -- Sefer Yetzirah.
Volume 2 : 240-1570 -- Mani : Evangelium -- Heart Sutra -- Popol Vuh -- Nicene Creed -- Tirumular : "Atbudha Dance" -- Dionysius the Areopagite : The Celestial Hierarchy -- Book of the Cave of Treasures -- Emerald Tablet -- Qur'an -- Shantideva : Bodhicaryavatara -- The Voyage of Bran -- Nihongi -- Tibetan Book of the Dead -- Sahih al-Bukhari -- Usual al-Kafi -- Yengishiki -- Vishnu Purana -- Mishneh Torah -- Book of the Bee -- Ibn al-'Arabi : The Meccan Illuminations -- Snorra Edda -- Francis of Assisi : "Canticle of the Creatures" -- Thomas Aquinas : Summa Theologiae -- gZi-Brjid -- Mohawk Thanksgiving Address -- Henricus Institoris and Jacobas Sprenger : Malleus Maleficarum -- Martin Luther : Ninety-Five Theses -- The Key of Solomon the King -- Paracelsus : Concerning the Nature of Things -- Rig Veda Americanus -- Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent -- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus -- Shulchan Arukh.
Volume 3 : 1604-2002 -- Raag Gond -- Fama Fraternitatis -- Westminster Confession -- John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress -- Kumulipo -- Hakuin Ekaku : "Song of Meditation" -- Ba'al Shem Tov : "The Holy Epistle" -- Emanuel Swedenborg : Invitation to the New Church -- Francis Barrett : The Magus -- Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Bab : Persian Bayan -- Kitab al-Jilwah -- Allan Kardec : The Spirits' Book -- Baha'u'llah : Kitab-i-aqdas -- Mary Baker Eddy : Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures -- Pittsburgh Platform -- Helena Blavatsky : The Secret Doctrine -- Rufus M. Jones : "Essential Truths" -- Rudolf Steiner : Theosophy -- Emma Goldman : "The Philosophy of Atheism" -- Robert Athlyi Rogers : Holy Piby -- Humanist Manifesto -- Meher Baba : Discourses -- Gerald Gardner : Book of Shadows -- Vatican II -- Ayatollah Khomeini : Islamic Government : Governance of the Jurist -- Yoruba Praise Poem to Sango -- Li Hongzhi : Zhuan Falun -- Ismar Schorsch : The Sacred Cluster -- Jose Trigueirinho : Calling Humanity -- List of Documents by Religious Tradition -- Subject Index.
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Pairs excerpts from ninety-four primary source documents and sacred texts with expert analysis from seventy contributors.