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Tue 26 Feb, 2008 11:58 pm
the bible, in all its versions
the q'uran (sp?)
the bagavagita sp?
what else is there?
The Torah and the Mishnah
Upanishads
The only one worth reading is "The God Delusion".
the torah is the one i was forgetting, thanks.
anything else?
Similar to the Mishnah in Judaism, Islam has the Hadith in addition to the Qur'an.
the book of the dead! wow i forgot that book was real i watched that damn movie so many times.
You might also check out the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the Popul Vuh, which is a Mayan book of religio-mythology, and a geneology of Mayan rulers in the Guatamalan highlands, late in Mayan history (scholars believe that the creation and religious myths of the Popul Vuh are consonant with early Mayan belief).
If you would like something truly goofy to read, check out The Book of Mormon.
The Epic of Gilgamesh. It's weird, the missing parts are situated such as to make it more heart-wrenching. I mean, I couldn't concern myself with some cave-man preaching, but thinking through it to what would have been the perhaps the early king who served as the kernel, and the elaborations folk saw to make thereupon...
Hanno has made a good call. Many modern scholars (probably most) consider Gilgamesh to have had a profound influence on Jewish mythology.
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