- Ancient Greece
- Homeric Hymns
- Theogony
- Golden Verses of Pythagoras
- Christianity
- The Bible. For all branches of Christianity - Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox - 66 canonical books of the Bible is the main scripture.
- Catholicism
- Deuterocanonical books
- Orthodox Church
- Anagignoskomena and Antilegomena
- Cerdonianism and Marcionism
- Gospel of Marcion (similar to the Gospel of Luke)
- Pauline epistles
- Gnosticism
- Nag Hammadi library and other Gnostic texts (not from the Bible)
- Certain books of the Old Testament and New Testament
- Latter Day Saint movement
- The Bible in King James' version
- The Book of Mormon
- The Pearl of Great Price
- The Doctrine and Covenants
- Ancient Egyptian religion
- Old Kingdom
- Pyramid Texts
- First Intermediate Period & Middle Kingdom
- Coffin Texts
- Second Intermediate Period
- The Book of the Dead
- Book of Caverns
- Book of Gates
- Amduat
- Book of the Heavenly Cow
- Litany of Re
- Old Kingdom
- Etruscan religion
- Cippus Perusinus
- Liber Linteus
- Pyrgi Tablets
- Tabula Cortonensis
- Islam
- Qur'an (also referred to as Kuran, Koran, Qur’ān, Coran or al-Qur’ān)
- Hadith (oral traditions of the words and deeds of Muhammad
- Sunnah (the things that Muhammad did, as in his actions)
- Judaism
- Rabbinical Judaism
- The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
- Torah (teachings)
- Nevi'im (prophets)
- Ketuvim (writings)
- The Talmud
- Mishnah
- Gemara
- Karaite Judaism
- The Tanakh
- Beta Israel
- The Tanakh with several apocrypha
- Rabbinical Judaism
- Taoism
- Tao Te Ching
- Zhuangzi
- Daozang
- Zoroastrianism
- Primary religious texts, that is, the Avesta collection:
- The Yasna, the primary liturgical collection, includes the Gathas.
- The Visperad, a collection of supplements to the Yasna.
- The Yashts, hymns in honor of the divinities.
- The Vendidad, describes the various forms of evil spirits and ways to confound them.
- shorter texts and prayers, the Yashts the five Nyaishes ("worship, praise"), the Sirozeh and the Afringans (blessings).
- There are some 60 secondary religious texts, none of which are considered scripture. The most important of these are:
- The Denkard (middle Persian, 'Acts of Religion'),
- The Bundahishn, (middle Persian, 'Primordial Creation')
- The Menog-i Khrad, (middle Persian, 'Spirit of Wisdom')
- The Arda Viraf Namak (middle Persian, 'The Book of Arda Viraf')
- The Sad-dar (modern Persian, 'Hundred Doors', or 'Hundred Chapters')
- The Rivayats, 15th-18th century correspondence on religious issues
- For general use by the laity:
- The Zend , various commentaries on and translations of the Avesta.
- The Khordeh Avesta, a collection of everyday prayers from the Avesta.
- Primary religious texts, that is, the Avesta collection:
- to be continued..
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