What books do you keep on your shelf for religious reference?

Answer 1

King James Bible, Strong's Concordance, and commentary by Henry M. Morris

Answer 2

1) The Dhammapada.
2) The Pali Canon.
3) Many Dharma books.
4) The NKJBible & Strong's concordance of the bible - always to be used together, to understand from the original Heb./Greek what each word means in the bible, for every bible version is subject to the author's personal interpretation.
5) Occasionally use the Amplified Bible, because it "amplifies" the meanings loudly!
And also the Jerome Commentary Bible !
6) The Tao te Ching.
7) Confucianism: The Great Learning,
The Doctrine of Mean, Analects of Confucius, The Mencius, Classics of Poetry
Classics of Rites, Classics of History, Spring and Autumn Annals, and Classics of Music.
8) A Tanak {Jewish bible)
9) A Qur'an.
10) Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants, & The Pearl of Great Price.


*Many other books. Am open-minded but it is not easily to convert me to any set religion.

At this time, am focusing on Dharma books concerning mindfulness meditation.

Am No One special, just like to read a lot on spare time, but mostly spend ALOT of time with the Family. Family {the wife, and 12 kids, *just kidding, two children) always come first.

Thank You for giving me the opportunity to provide you with "an" answer to your question.

Have an excellent coming weekend.

Answer 3

A small selection (aka 'what I brought to my apartment at law school halfway across the country from home'):

Primary texts:
Bible
Quran
The Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita
The Pali Canon, the Abhidharma, various Sutras
Springs of Jaina Wisdom, by Dulichand Jain (from the Agamic texts)
Tao te Ching

Secondary texts:
The Loyolan exercises
Thich Nhat Hanh's entire works, pretty much
Various Sufi poetry
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan
The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
Various books by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spinoza's Ethics
The Prophet and other works by Kahlil Gibran
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Mohammed Iqbal

(Edit: Forgot I brought the Tao te Ching too. It's such a small book that it was lost in my bookshelves when I looked. :))

Answer 4

I have 2 KJV bibles, a Strong's Concordance, Many Commentaries, Books on different religions, a book about the manor and customs of those times, a book on Demonology, I have several books on great missionaries. Well let me narrow this down I have 2 book shelves full of religious books. I love to read.

Answer 5

Dear Zebrarai,

These are the books I use for reference:

1. Bible (KJV)
2. "What Is The True Gospel" by Harold Camping.
3. "First Principles of Bible Study" by Harold Camping.
4. "Time Has An End" by Harold Camping.
5. "The End Of The Church Age and After" by Harold Camping.

I hope these can help you also.

Answer 6

The NWT Bible, KJV, NIV, ASV,(not to mention the several sites that offer many versions of the Bible that I have bookmarked and often use),
Insight in the Scriptures,
Reasoning From the Scriptures,
All Scripture is Beneficial,
See the Good Land
Catholic Encyclopedia
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE Really TEACH

several concordances and dictionaries and encyclopedias

I have the Watchtower Library on cd installed on my computer

Of course there are many research sites available on the web which I use when needed.

Answer 7

Word Biblical Commentary on CD-ROM. Hermeneutika on CD-ROM (the most helpful tool ever) GospelLink for those occasions when I encounter a Mormon apologist. I had thousands at one time that I gave to the town library after leaving the ministry. I remember most of what I read so there was no need to hang onto them. But technical issues of linguistics and translation I sometimes need references . Like the Dictionary of Theological Greek and Hebrew is a good help.

Answer 8

I have several Bibles, the Koran, the Torah, the Iching, Books on Tsaoism, Books on Zen Buddhism, the communist manifesto, Nietzche, Singer, Two books on Wicca, and Dianetics. I may have more. Those are just the ones that I can spot at this moment.

Answer 9

You REALLY don't want my list. I keep texts like various translations of the Bible, Qu'ran, Torah, Talmud and things like the Gnostic texts etc, the poetry and stories of ancient cltures and their writings (like Homer et al). I also have other types of secondary references that include discussions of texts, anthropological studies. I have a smaller collection of tertiary sources that are mostly for deepening my understandng or cross-referencing. They are, unfortunately, without a shelf. Everything is boxed up in our "Doom Room" and has very little hope of rescue until well after the new baby comes.

Answer 10

Hello, I have the best of books as I also love to write them. I have one edited ready to print and working on another. The Vines Dictionary and commentary is a great tool but I use the Dake Bible with a half a million scripture references and topics ia one of the best..

Answer 11

I have books on just about every religion I have ever read about, which is a lot. As well as a good selection of books about Atheism.

I have many different versions of the Bible, the Apocrypha, The Book of Mormon, The Satanic Bible, the Qur'an, Al-Hadith, The Analects, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Veda, The Tipitaka, The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), The Talmud, The Kojiki, The Nihon Shoki, etc...

...and of course the Poetic Edda including especially the Hávamál and the Prose Edda. ;-)