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Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East

The 14 volumes of the Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East give a comprehensive overview of all major religions of the Middle-East to the Far East, both ancient and modern. This is however NOT the more famous 50 volume Sacred Books of the East from Oxford. If we had the PDF versions of the Sacred Books of the East, they would be in this section as well. Nevertheless, this 14 volume Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East are at least available here.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 1

Babylonia and Assyria texts. The tales of Babylon that survived its fall; Earth's oldest language: the Sumerian Texts in the Akkadian; The writings of Hammurapi; The creation epic; The epic of Gilgamesh and the Goddess Ishtar; Other religious legends; Moral and philosophical texts; The Tel-El-Amarna letters; Records of the conquering kings; Prayers and magic incantations; Nebuchadrezzar and Belshazzar.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 2

Egypt: The earliest Egyptian remains; The secret pyramid texts; The precepts of Ptah-Hotep; Religious and semi-historic texts; The book of the dead, Egypt's holy scripture; Hymns to the One Universal God; The religion of the poor in ancient Egypt; History and legend under the great empire; Egypt's chief epic poem; The book of the breaths of life.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 3

Ancient Hebrew: The earliest remains; The Mishna or elder talmud; The Gemara, or younger talmud; The Haggada or Tales and traditions of the talmud; The Halacha, or Rules of the law; The tabernacle.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 4

Medieval Hebrew: The Midrash, or Preserved tradition; The Kabbalah or Secret tradition; Religious poetry; The book Cusari; The story of a lost race; The great Hebrew Philosophers; The travels of Benjamin of Tudela.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 5

Ancient Arabia: The genius of Arabic literature; The hanged poems; The Koran.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 6

Medieval Arabic, Moorish, and Turkish: The Sunan, or Holy traditions of Mohammed; Early history and science; Philosophy and religion; The poems of Arabia; Moorish literature: Science and History; Turkish literature: Legends and poetry, The Travels of Sidi Ali Reis.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 7

Ancient Persia: The Zendavesta, or Persian holy scripture; The empire of Cyrus; The later religious books; The Pahlavi historical romances; The final Persian tradition of the past.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 8

Medieval Persia: Omar Khayyam, the first great mystic poet; Nizami, Persia's chief romantic poet; Jalal Ad-din Rumi, the leader of Sufism; Sadi, the famous poet philosopher; Hafiz, the "poet of love"; Jami, the last great mystic.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 9

India and Brahmanism: The Brahmanic books; The Vedas, or Books of holy knowledge; Later Sanskrit literature.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 10

India and Buddhism: The edicts of Asoka; The earliest suttas or sacred sayings; The book of the great decease; Later legends of the life of Gotama, the Buddha; The Jataka or birth tale; The Dhammapada or path of the law; Later teachings.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 11

Ancient China: The king, or ancient classics; The four great books of the philosophers.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 12

Taoism, Later taoist texts; Other religions; History and drama.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 13

Japan: The Kojiki, or "records of ancient matters"; The Nihongi, or "chronicles of Japan"; The Yengishiki, or Shinto rituals; The Man-Yoshu, or "myriad leaves"; The Kokinshu, or "collection of odes"; Genji Monogatari, the foremost Japanese novel; The medieval drama of Japan; Basho, the chief Japanese poet; Modern Buddhism in Japan.

Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East Volume 14

The great rejected books of the Biblical Apocrypha: The books of Adam and Eve; The writings attributed to Enoch; The Apocalypse of Baruch; The Story of Ahikar; The Gospels of Christ's Childhood; The Gospels of Nicodemus.