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Religious Texts

Religious Texts: Provides links to religious texts by name, where there is a category specifically dealing with a named text, and by religious tradition.

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Ancient Egyptian

• Egyptian Book of the Dead - Another site featuring a complete version of the Book of the Dead. Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge
• Egyptian Book of the Dead - Papyrus of Ani: Good translation but not formatted version of The Book of the Dead.
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani - The Ancient book, initially written on papyrus, telling of the rituals done at the inception of death. Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge.

Ancient Hellenic

• Ancient Greek Love Magic - Harvard University Press publication by Christopher Faraone. Description of text.
• Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, The Theogony - Online Medieval and Classical Library text file.
• Structure of Hesiod's Theogony - University of Pennsylvania annotated course notes on Hesiod's Theogony.

Ancient Roman

• Ablution Prayer - The purification ritual performed prior to other rituals.
• Cakes for the Deities - Excerpt from Cato the Elder's 'De Agricultura': Recipes for the offering-cakes known as "libum" and "placenta".
• Daily Lararium Rite (Latin) - The form taken by the daily ritual in honor of the household gods (Lares and Panates).
• De Agricultura: Clearing Land - Excerpt from Cato the Elder's 'De Agricultura': Ritual before clearing a grove or tilling land.
• De Agricultura: Purifying land - Excerpt from Cato the Elder's 'De Agricultura': Ritual for purifying a field or other piece of land.
• Idus Ritual (Latin) - The form taken by the ritual performed on the Ides of each month.
• Kalends Ritual (Latin) - The ritual performed on the first day of each month.
• Nones Ritual (Latin) - The ritual performed on the Nones (5th or 7th day) of each month.
• Oath to Iuppiter - An oath taken to Jupiter
• Offering to Ceres, Janus, Jupiter and Juno - Excerpt from Cato the Elder's 'De Agricultura': Making offerings to the deities prior to the harvest.
• Offering to Jupiter before the ploughing season - Excerpt from Cato the Elder's 'De Agricultura': Making offerings to Iupiter Dapalis before ploughing land.
• Offering to Mars Silvanus for cattle - Excerpt from Cato the Elder's 'De Agricultura': Making offerings to Mars Silvanus to ensure the health of a farmer's cattle.
• Prayer to Iuppiter - Prayer uttered before making an offering to Jupiter
• Prayers to Various Deities - From the works of Plautus, prayers to various gods and goddesses.
• Treaty Ritual - Prayer said to Jupiter before signing a treaty.

Ancient Sumerian

• Descent of Inanna (Ishtar) to the Underworld - Seems to be the full text of the document.
• Enki And The World Order
• Enuma Elish - A translation of all seven tablets of the Enuma Elish (Sumerian / Akkadian creation epic).
• Hymn to Shamash
• Hymns to Inanna / Ishtar
• Hymns to Inanna and Dumuzi (Tammuz)
• Hymns to Nannar / Sin

Buddhism

• Buddha's First Sermon - A reconstruction of Buddha's first sermon. Composed at least several centuries after Siddhartha Gautama's death, contains the essence of what the Buddha taught his earliest disciples.
• Buddha's Sermons and Teachings - A version of Buddha's first sermon and a discussion of the nature of Nirvana.
• Buddhist Texts - A small collection of various Buddhist teachings and sutras.
• Buddhist Information - A large collection of sutras.
• The Dhammapada - A collection of 423 verses containing the Buddha's essential teachings on some 305 occasions for the benefit of a wide range of human beings.
• Four Great Vows - The basic vows of buddhist students.
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Transitions to the Otherworld - A list of Tibetan volumes of the Bardo Throdrol and related Bon texts. Summary and explanation of contents.

Christianity

• Goshen Bible Study Tools - Bible resource page for conducting word, verse, and topic searches in fourteen bible versions, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, commentaries, concordances, biblical dictionaries, sermon helps, and church history.
• The Unbound Bible - A collection of searchable Bibles with 10 English versions, Greek, Hebrew, 4 ancient versions, and 42 other languages. Features other resources, such as a commentary, Bible dictionaries, Strong's Lexicon, and allows adding Personal Notes. Site in English, Spanish, French. From Biola University.
• Bible Basics - Excellent, readable resource for the new Bible student. Provides fundamental information about the Bible, where it came from, where to find various books or topics, and the history of the books it contains, without theological interpretation. Includes wav files of correct pronunciation of difficult Bible words and names.
• Bible Gateway - Search multiple versions of the Bible in nine different languages by keyword, location, or concept.
• Bible History - Articles and a weekly column about the Bible and its history. Offers evidence that it is the word of God by using nature and people as examples.
• Bible Stuph - Read through the Bible in a year using our daily New International Version (NIV) Bible readings. Plus Bible search, trivia, devotional links and other Christian resources.
• Blue Letter Bible - Searchable Bible, by verse or keyword. Several English translations, plus the Vulgate, and interlinear Hebrew OT and Greek NT. Text and audio/video commentaries, Bible maps and charts.
• The Canon of the Bible - A look at Protestant objections to the Catholic canon.
• The Canon of the Bible - A survey of the history of the Protestant Bible
• Early Christian Writings - Dmoz.org

Hinduism

• Vedic Texts - Archive of ancient scriptures from Hinduism. Texts include original Sanskrit with English translations.
• The Yoga Sutras - Includes quotations by Patanjali, and some bibliographic references.

Islam

• Advanced Quran Browser - The Quran Browser helps you explore the Holy Quran actively
• A Book of Guidance for All Mankinds - al-quran, a book of guidance for all mankinds.
• The Glorious Quran - Arabic text, english translation and audio recitation. Information on Islam and more....
• The Holy Book - Contains a translation of the Quran, a search tool, and some information.
• Holy Quran - English translation of the Quran.

Judaism

• Project Genesis - Disseminates traditional Torah learning by sponsoring a number of online classes and discussion groups, many of which require no previous educational background. Most classes are archived. There are links to other Torah-learning resources.
• The Holy Scriptures — The Tanakh - The complete text of the Torah, Prophets and Writings.
• Sacred-Texts: Bible - An index page for two transliterations of Tanakh as well as the JPS translation, crossindexed with Christian translations.
• Tanakh text (and Rambam) - Hebrew text of the Bible, with vowel and punctuation marks. Also, full Hebrew text of the Mishne Torah of the Rambam.
• Torah Resources online - Collection of texts, including complete Torah, Kuzari, Maccabis, Mesilat Yesharim, and others.

 Later-Day Saints

• LDS Scriptures - Official online LDS scripture resources. Searchable index of the Standard Works, Bible Dictionary, Topical Guide, Biblical maps, scriptural photographs and other resources.
• Book of Mormon Search - Search options for searching an e-text of the Book of Mormon. Includes simple text search, boolean, and specific word proximity results.
• Christ in Ancient America - According to the findings of scholars, he came to America long before Columbus. The ancients regarded him as the Creator, come to earth in bodily form. Reprint of pamphlet by Elder Mark E. Peterson.