General guide for Humanities; also includes resources for Asian Studies, American Studies, Creative Arts, European Studies, Jewish Studies, Liberal Studies, Middle East Studies, and Religious Studies.
A compilation of texts from all world religions, from the myths of the Australian aborigines to the legends of African, Amerind, Polynesian, Greek, Indian, Near Eastern, and Japanese peoples.
Includes a wide variety of religious and non-religious texts preceded by useful introductions
Anthologies of Religious Scriptures
Books in the King Library:
Ballou, Robert O., ed. The Bible of the World. New York: The Viking Press, 1939. [King 6th Floor BL70 .B5]
Dye, James W. & William H. Forthman, compilers. Religions of the World; Selected Readings. New York, Appleton Century Crofts, 1967. [King 6th Floor BL29 .D9]
Gaer, Joseph. The Wisdom of the Living Religions. New York: Dodd, Mead,1956. [King Reference 2nd Floor BL 29 .G27]
Miller, John & Aaron Kenedi, eds. God's Breath: Sacred Scriptures of the World. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1999. [King Nonfiction 3rd Floor 291.82 God's]
Pye, Michael. Comparative Religion; An Introduction through Source Materials. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. [King 6th Floor BL29 .P9 1972b]
Asian Religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese Religions)
sermonindex.net (access Christian sermons in video, text, or audio formats)
BibleGateway.com (a tool for reading and researching scripture online; provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture based on keywords, phrases, or scripture reference)
Bettenson, Henry Scowcroft. The Early Christian Fathers; A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Clement of Rome to St. Athanasius. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. [King 6th Floor BR63 .B4]
Charles, R. H., ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. [King Reference 2nd Floor BS1692 1968]
Pritchard, James B., ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. [King Reference 2nd Floor BS1180 .P83 1969]
Richardson, Cyril Charles. Early Christian Fathers. Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1953. [King 6th Floor BR60 .R5]
The Koran (proximity and boolean searching enabled)
Books in the King Library:
Abdel Haleem, M.A.S., trans. The Qur'an. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [King 6th Floor BP109 2004]
Ali, A. Yusuf, trans. The Holy Qur'an. Indianapolis: American Trust Pubns. for the Muslim Student's Association of the United States and Canada, 1977. [King 6th Floor BP109 1977x]
Khalifa, Rashad, trans. Quran: The Final Testament. Tucson: Islamic Productions, 1989. [King Reference 2nd Floor BP109 .K44 1989]
Sells, Michael, trans. Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1999. [King Nonfiction 3rd Floor 297.1226 Quran]
The Dead Sea Scriptures, with introd. and notes by Theodor H. Gaster. Garden City, N.Y. Anchor Books, 1976. [King Reference 2nd Floor BM487 .A363]
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures [The new JPS translation according to the traditional Hebrew text]. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985. [King Reference 2nd Floor BS895 .J4 1985a]
The Talmud [Talmud Bavli]: the Steinsaltz Edition. Commentary by Adin Steinsaltz. New York: Random House, 1989- [King Reference 2nd Floor BM499.5 .E4 1989]
