Directory 1,237 records
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Across 13 traditions, and 533 in none yet.
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533 of these sit in no collection yet, so they appear under All and under no tradition.
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De Agri Cultura Book by Cato the Elder
- Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter Gnostic Christian text (c. 200 AD)
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Christianity Gospel of Jesus' Wife Papyrus fragment with forged Coptic text -
South Asian traditions Maitrayaniya Upanishad One of the ancient Sanskrit scriptures of Hinduism -
Christianity Memorare Catholic prayer towards the Virgin Mary - Buddhist traditions Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna philosophy
- Christianity Parable of the Master and Servant Parable taught by Jesus of Nazareth according to the Christian Gospel of Luke
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Rhesus Athenian tragedy attributed to Euripides - Christianity Sapiential Books Subset of the books of Septuagint: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach
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Silappatikaram Earliest Tamil epic, story of Kannaki, Kovalan and the anklet -
The Fairy-Queen Semi-opera by Henry Purcell -
Judaism Zeraim First seder of the Mishna - Apostolic Constitutions Christian collection of eight treatises which belongs to genre of the Church Orders
- Ashtavakra Gita Advaita Vedanta Scripture; Sanatana Dharma text
- Judaism Avodah Zarah Tractate of the Talmud
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East Asian traditions Baopuzi Taoist text by Ge Hong
- Buddhist traditions Brahmajāla Sutta 1st of 34 suttas in the Digha Nikaya; discusses the precepts Cula-sila, Majjhima-sila, and Maha-sila, and the 62 ditthi clung to by ascetics, comprising 18 about the past (pubbantanuditthino) and 44 about the future (aparantakappika)
- chronology of Jesus Timeline of the life of Jesus
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Codex Borgia Aztec ritual & divinatory manuscript - Christianity Gospel of Marcion C. 140 CE Christian text
- Christianity History of Joseph the Carpenter Compilation of traditions concerning the family of Jesus; probably composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th – early 7th century; survives in Coptic and Arabic; supports the perpetual virginity of Mary
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Buddhist traditions Infinite Life Sutra Mahāyāna Buddhist sūtra -
Just So Stories Short story collection by Rudyard Kipling - Buddhist traditions Kathavatthu One of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka; contrasts the orthodox Theravada position on a range of issues to the heterodox views of various interlocutors
- Lauda Sion Sequence prescribed for the Roman Catholic Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi
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Leo's Tome A letter sent by Pope Leo I to Flavian of Constantinople
- Buddhist traditions Mahāparinibbāna Sutta One of 34 suttas in the Digha Nikaya; narrates the last few months of the Gautama Buddha's life, his death and funeral, and the distribution of his relics
- Judaism Nashim Seder of the Mishnah and the Talmud
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Christianity O Little Town of Bethlehem Christian Christmas hymn written by Phillips Brooks - Orphic hymns Collection of 87 short religious poems composed in either the late Hellenistic or early Roman era
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Paris Codex Maya manuscript -
Judaism · Christianity Psalm 89 Psalm - Questions of Bartholomew Apocrypha
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Tradition · Christianity Road to Emmaus appearance Artistic theme and biblical episode in Emmaus - Christianity Salt and light Images used by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5:13–16)
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Second Book of Nephi Part of the Book of Mormon -
Christianity The Mote and the Beam Parable by Jesus told in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:3–5) -
The Snow Maiden Opera by Nikolaj Rimski-Korsakov - Buddhist traditions Therigatha A part of Khuddaka Nikaya in the Pali Canon
- Judaism Tractate Kiddushin Tractate in Mishnah and Talmud
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Tsurezuregusa Literary work -
Welsh Triads Series of Welsh triads about the legendary figures of Britain -
Alpamysh Ancient Turkic epic -
Buddhist traditions Amitabha Sutra The shorter of the two Indian Mahayana sutras that describe Sukhāvatī, the pure land of Amitābha - Apocalypse of Abraham Ancient Jewish manuscript dating to 70-150 AD
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Mesopotamia and the Levant Baal Cycle Levantine mythological cycle of stories - Book of Jarom Part of the Book of Mormon
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Book of the Heavenly Cow Ancient Egyptian mythology about the fall of Man
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Tradition · Christianity British Israelism Christian movement, according to which the people of England are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel -
Codex Tchacos 4th century Coptic manuscript -
Christianity Coptic Apocalypse of Paul Gnostic text found in the Nag Hammadi library, Codex V -
Christianity Correspondence of Paul and Seneca 4th-century forgery claiming to be a set of letters between Paul the Apostle and Seneca the Younger - Epic of Sundiata Epic poem of the Malinke people, telling the story of the hero Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire
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Fourth Nephi Part of the Book of Mormon, describing the period immediately following Jesus’ visit to America when the Nephites and the Lamanites are all converted -
Buddhist traditions Golden Light Sutra Mahāyāna sutra - Iranian traditions · Christianity Gospel of Mani 3rd-century gnostic gospel written by Mani
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Norse and Germanic Hárbarðsljóð Poem of the Poetic Edda - Norse and Germanic Hymiskviða OId Norse poem in the Poetic Edda
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Jesus and the rich young man Episode of the synoptic gospels -
Knýtlinga saga Book by Ólafr hvítaskáld Þórðarson - Judaism Kodashim Orden de la Mishná y del Talmud Babilónico.
- Buddhist traditions Mahāvastu Early Buddhist text
- Judaism Massechet Sanhedrin Tractate of the Talmud
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Judaism Megillah Tractate of the Talmud. - Judaism Nezikin Order of the Mishnah and the Talmud.
- Judaism Seder Moed Second Order of the Talmud.
- Judaism Tehorot Order of the Mishnah and the Talmud.
- The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Book by Bobby Henderson, containing the main beliefs of the parody religion Pastafarianism
- The Seven Valleys Bahá'í mystical text, written in Persian by Bahá'u'lláh around 1860
- Story The Voyage of Bran (son of Febail) Medieval Irish narrative
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Triodion Liturgical book in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism - Buddhist traditions Udāna Part of Khuddaka Nikaya in the Pali Canon, containing 80 utterances of the Buddha
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Þiðreks saga Old Norse chivalric saga - 4 Baruch Ancient pseudepigraphical text included in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible
- Christianity Acts of John Biblical apocrypha
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South Asian traditions Aitareya Brahmana Ancient Indian collection of sacred hymns -
Buddhist traditions Amitayurdhyana Sutra Pure Land Mahayana sutra on meditations involving complex visualizations -
Arba'ah Turim Book written by the Rabbi Jacob ben Asher - Buddhist traditions Dhammasangani 1st part of Pāli Abhidhamma Pitak; begins with a matika (a list of classifications of dhammass); there are 22 3-fold classifications, followed by 100 2-fold ones according to the abhidhamma method and 42 according to the sutta method
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Judaism Ezra-Nehemiah Book of the Tanakh, corresponding to the books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Christian Old Testament -
Buddhist traditions Guhyasamāja Tantra Tantric Buddhist scripture -
Haustlöng Skaldic poem -
South Asian traditions Kalpasutra Ancient Jain text written by Bhadrabahu -
L'Africaine Opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer -
Judaism Mishnah Ta'anit Tractate of the Mishnah -
O Antiphons Roman Catholic prayer - Buddhist traditions Paṭṭhāna Part of the Pāli Abhidhamma Pitaka; a detailed examination of causal conditioning, the law of cause and effect, analyzing 24 types of conditional relations (paccaya) in relation to the classifications in the matika of the Dhammasangani
- Prime Prayer at first hour of daylight
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Principia Discordia Discordian religious text - Christianity prophetic books Division of the Old Testament; a group of texts
- Judaism Rosh Hashanah Tractate in Moed
- Terce Third of the canonical hours
- Testament of Abraham A text of Jewish apocalyptic literature
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Third Book of Nephi Part of the Book of Mormon, describing Jesus’ visit to America
- Norse and Germanic Völundarkviða Eddic poem
- Christianity What a Friend We Have in Jesus Christian hymn with words by Joseph M. Scriven, set to music by Charles Crozat Converse
- Words of Mormon Part of the Book of Mormon
- Norse and Germanic Ynglingatal Literary work
- Act of Contrition Catholic prayer that expresses sorrow for sins
- Apocalypse of Adam Literary work
- Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius 7th-century Syriac Christian text
- Book of Enos Part of the Book of Mormon
- Judaism · Iranian traditions Book of Giants Apocryphal Jewish book expanding a narrative in the Hebrew Bible, discovered at Qumran
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Book of Mosiah Part of the Book of Mormon -
Christianity Epistle of the Apostles Apocryphal text of the 2nd century; purportedly letter from the Apostles of Jesus -
Exorcising the Canaanite woman's daughter Miracle of Jesus - Finnesburg Fragment Portion of an Old English heroic poem, transcribed by George Hickes from a now lost medieval manuscript.
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Christianity First Apocalypse of James Third century Christian Gnostic text - Good Friday prayer for the Jews Annual prayer in the Christian, particularly Roman Catholic, liturgy
- Háttatal Section of Prose Edda
- Hypostasis of the Archons Gnostic text surviving in Coptic from the Nag Hammadi library
- Kogo Shūi Historical record of the Inbe clan of Japan
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Kudrun Heroic epic of medieval German literature -
Christianity Letter of Peter to Philip 2nd or 3rd century Gnostic Christian epistle -
Maya Codex of Mexico Pre-Columbian Maya book - Judaism Mishnah Shabbat Tractate in Mishnah concerning Shabbat laws
- Judaism Mishnah Yevamot Tractate of the Talmud
- Judaism Mo'ed Katan Tractate of the Talmud
- Naalayira Divya Prabhandham Collection of 4,000 Tamil verses composed by the 12 Alvars
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Judaism Nazir Hebrew treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds