Upanisads (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 The gold standard + In No Way Challenged by Roebuck's Newer Penguin Translation + Good introduction to the Upanishads Professor Olivelle is a great scholar - no doubt one of the most highly respected Sanskritists and prolific translators of our time. As such, it should be no surprise to find that his translation of the Upanisads is the best currently available, and will likely remain so for quite some time. The ...             The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya9 reviews Bikkhu Bodhi Wisdom Publications, 2002 The Samyutta Nikaya + A scholarly masterwork of a translation + Outstanding academic work + Connected Discourses of The Buddha + The Samyutta Nikaya             Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics)16 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 This is the one scholars quote from . . . + More pedagogical than pleasurable. + Modern Translation in an Attempted Perfectionism + Very Interesting + Great Collection Of Early Mesopotamian Literature             The Nag Hammadi Library68 reviews James M. Robinson HarperOne, 1990 Nag Hammadi + A Definitive New Translation? The Three Sins of James M.Robinson + I like a newer volume of these texts. + Good, but not "definitive" + Necessary             The Koran (Penguin Classics)78 reviews Anonymous Penguin Classics, 2004 Dawood Koran from Penguin Classics + Thank the Lord for His Light + Is This a First-Rate Translation? OK, I have an Arabic speaking friend who criticizes all English translations of the Koran. Because Dawood wasn't available online, as are Pickthal, Shakir, and others, I bought a copy, and as far as translations go, it's probably as good as you're going to get in English. Yusuf Ali is *soft* in ...             The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)17 reviews Anonymous Penguin Classics, 2003 The most readable truest English rendition of the Gita + A delightful find + Outstanding The Bhagavad Gita is the world's most translated scripture. The task for a Gita translator is to effectively take the poetic multilayer Sanskrit original and translate it into English preserving it's flavor allowing it to stand alone without commentary. Few have succeeded. I have read multiple ...             The Jewish Study Bible: featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation54 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Purchased for Pastor + Outstanding publication + The Jewish Study Bible + Tanakh Review             The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation17 reviews Michael O. Wise, Martin G. Abegg, ... HarperOne, 2005 It may take me the rest of my life to reflect on and discern the amazing writ! + The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation + Filling in the Blanks + Very good, easy to read! + Excellent             The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 129 reviews Stanford University Press, 2003 I continue to marvel + Zohar + The Blueprint for Elevating your Soul + English translation of the Zohar             Middle Eastern Mythology: From the Assyrians to the Hebrews (Penguin Religion and Mythology)1 review S. H. Hooke Penguin (Non-Classics), 1963 Excellent review of Mythology through early Christianity This book provided a fascinating review of early Middle Eastern mythology starting from Mesopotamian culture and proceeding through to Judaism and early Christianity. It also includes a discussion of the importance of myth and ritual as a basis for religious and socialogical structure. The area ...             Hinduism: The Rig Veda (Sacred Writings, Volume 5) Quality Paperback Book Club, 1992 Hinduism: The Rig Veda is the 5th volume of the Sacred Writings Series. It contains the complete translation of the over 1000 hymms of Hindu praise presented in the classical grouping of ten books, comprehensively notated.             The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew-Greek-English92 reviews Hendrickson Publishers, 2005 Great Resource + Very pleased + The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew-Greek-English + Greek Bible + Essential for a good Bible study             The Legacy of Mesopotamia (Legacy) A. T. Reyes, David Pingree, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 This collection explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of recent rediscovery on European art is also explored.             The Literature of Ancient Sumer3 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Informative and fascinating + The Literature of Ancient Sumer It seems like every bookstore has at least one book that contains the "Epic of Gilgamesh" or a book that describes and discusses it. On superficial reading most of these books seem to say or imply that the Gilgamesh epic is the world's oldest literary work, and that its text comes from ancient ...             The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English3 reviews Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996 Very well written!! + Not Just Plain Jane "The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated" by Florentino Garcia Martinez is the best version of translated Scroll material that I have come across, and there are "others." What makes this translation excellent is the unbiased, scholarly critique. Martinez does a superb job here! There is no "religious" ...             Tanach: The Torah, Prophets, Writings -- The Twenty-Four Books of the Bible, Newly Translated and Annotated ...43 reviews Nosson Scherman Mesorah Pubns Ltd, 1996 Excellent book + Better than expected ! + Great + A wonderful help + Tanach: Exceptional!             Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World) Dennis Pardee Society of Biblical Literature, 2002 The Ugaritic ritual texts provide the only extensive documentary data for Late Bronze cultic practice in the greater Syro-Palestinian region. These texts, in a West-Semitic language that belongs to the same family as Hebrew and Aramaic, reflect the actual practice of a sacrificial cult in the city of Ugarit in the late twelfth-early eleventh centuries B.C.E. Based on new collations of ...             Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text Jewish Publication Society of America, 2007 Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the "JPS Tanakh" has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. "The JPS Tanakh" is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the "Masoretic" (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three ...             The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 229 reviews Stanford University Press, 2003 I continue to marvel + Zohar + The Blueprint for Elevating your Soul + English translation of the Zohar             The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 329 reviews Stanford University Press, 2005 I continue to marvel + Zohar + The Blueprint for Elevating your Soul + English translation of the Zohar