Apocryphal books
Here are entered collections of texts of those books excluded from both the Catholic canon and the Protestant and Jewish canons of the Old Testament and from the Catholic and Protestant canons of the New Testament. Works on individual books of this group are entered under their own titles.
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Broader terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Apocryphal literature
- Bible -- Apocryphal books
- Pseudepigrapha
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Pseudepigrapha: An Account of Certain Apocryphal Sacred Writings of the Jews and Early Christians, by W. J. Deane (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Apocrypha Arabica (Studia Sinaitica No. 8; London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1901), ed. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Sacred books- Sacred Books of the East (50 volumes; 1879-1910), ed. by F. Max Müller
- Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha, with Critical and Biographical Sketches (revised edition, 1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by F. Max Müller, James Darmesteter, George Sale, Dharmakṣema, and Samuel Beal, contrib. by Aśvaghoṣa and Thomas Carlyle
- Sacred Hands: An Exhibit Catalog of Manuscripts with Texts of the Three Abrahamic Faiths (Ann Arbor: Special Collections Library, University of Michigan, 2011), by Pablo Álvarez, Evyn Kropf, and A. M. F. W. Verhoogt, illust. by Randal Stegmeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Splendour of God: Being Extracts From the Sacred Writings of the Bahai's (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1909), ed. by Eric Hammond, contrib. by Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- A Buddhist Bible (first edition, 1932), ed. by Dwight Goddard (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Buddha's "Way of Virtue": A Translation of the Dhammapada from the Pali Text (London: John Murray, 1920), trans. by W. D. C. Wagiswara and Kenneth J. Saunders (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Buddhism in Translations (1896), ed. by Henry Clarke Warren (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Buddhist Scriptures: A Selection Translated From the Pali With Introduction (London: John Murray, 1913), ed. by E. J. Thomas (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, trans. by Acharya Buddharakkhita (HTML at Access to Insight)
- The Dhammapada; The Sutta-Nipata, trans. by F. Max Müller and V. Fausbøll (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Itivuttaka: This Was Said by the Buddha, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
- Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Questions of King Milinda, trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Vinaya Texts (3 volumes; from the Sacred Books of the East series), trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
- The Buddha's Words on Kamma: Four Discourses of the Buddha from the Majjhima Nikaya, trans. by Nanamoli Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
- Dhammapada, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
- The Dhammapada, trans. by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg text)
- The Dhammapada, trans. by John Richards (text at Coombs-papers)
- The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon and the Commentaries, trans. by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
- The Jataka: or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 volumes; 1895-1907), ed. by Edward B. Cowell, trans. by Robert Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, and Robert Alexander Neil (multiple formats at archive.org and sacred-texts.com)
- The Jātaka, Together With Its Commentary: Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha (7 volumes, in Pali with some English notes; 1877-1897), ed. by V. Fausbøll, contrib. by Dines Andersen
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Die Drusenschrift: Kitāb Alnoqat Waldawāir "Das Buch der Punkte und Kreise", Nach dem Tübinger und Münchener Codex (in Arabic, with German added title page and notes; Kirchhain N.-L.: M. Schmersow, 1902), by Bahā' al-Dīn 'Alī ibn Aḥmad Muqtaná and Ḥamzah ibn 'Alī ibn Aḥmad, ed. by Christian Friedrich Seybold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Bhagavadgītā (multiple editions)
- From the Upanishads (Portland, ME: Thomas R. Mosher, ca. 1899), ed. by Charles Johnston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (18 books, published 1883-1896), trans. by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Matsya Puranam (2 volumes reprinted from a collection of Sacred Books of the Hindus; originally published 1916-1917), trans. by A Taluqdar of Oudh, contrib. by Srisa Chandra Vasu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Permanent History of Bharata Varsha (2 volumes in 3, in English with Sanskrit quotations; Trivandrum: Printed for the author at the Bhaskara Press, 1915-1918), by K. Narayana Aiyar
- The Rig Veda, trans. by Ralph T. H. Griffith
- The Satapatha Brahmana (5 volumes, 1882-1900), trans. by Julius Eggeling (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Upanishads, trans. by F. Max Müller (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Upanishads (with commentary), trans. by Swami Paramananda (Gutenberg text)
- The Vedic Experience, ed. by Raimon Panikkar (HTML at himalayanacademy.com)
- Vedic Hymns (2 volumes, 1896-1897), trans. by F. Max Müller and Hermann Oldenberg
- The Yoga Upanishads, With the Commentary of Sri Upanishad-Brahma-Yogin (in Sanskrit, with English foreword; Chennai: Published for the Adyar library (Theosophical Society), 1920), ed. by Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, contrib. by Upaniṣadbrahmayogi
- The Tattuva-Kattalei, Siva-Gnâna-Pōtham, and Siva-Pirakâsam: Treatises on Hindû Philosophy, Translated From the Tamil, With Introductions and Notes (New Haven: B. L. Hamlen, 1854), ed. by Henry Richard Hoisington (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Qur'an (multiple editions)
- The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, The Prophet, With Some Additions By His Successors in the Presidency of the Church (official LDS online edition, 2000), by Joseph Smith (HTML at lds.org)
- The Book of Mormon, contrib. by Joseph Smith (multiple editions)
- Doctrine and Covenants (Reorganized LDS version, based on the 1952 edition), by Joseph Smith (HTML at centerplace.org)
- The Pearl of Great Price, by Joseph Smith (HTML at lds.org)
- Buddhist Mahayana Texts, trans. by Edward B. Cowell, F. Max Müller, and J. Takakusu (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Saddharma-Pundarîka: or, The Lotus of the True Law, trans. by Hendrik Kern (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Holy Scriptures, Inspired Version, Containing the Old and New Testaments: An Inspired Revision of the Authorized Version (with notes on 1867, 1944, and manuscript editions), ed. by Joseph Smith (HTML at centerplace.org)
- The Holy Scriptures, Translated and Corrected by the Spirit of Revelation (RLDS edition of the Bible as revised from the King James version by Joseph Smith; Plano, IL: J. Smith, I. L. Rogers and E. Robinson, publishing committee, 1867), ed. by Joseph Smith
- The Religion of the Sikhs (from the Wisdom of the East series; London: John Murray, 1914), by Dorothy Field
- The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ (London: Orient Press, 1904), by Laozi, ed. by Lionel Giles
- The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ (London: J. Murray, c1905), by Laozi, ed. by Lionel Giles
- The Sayings of Lao Tzu (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1905), by Laozi, ed. by Lionel Giles (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Texts of Taoism, trans. by James Legge
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