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Religious Literature

Controversy is often a part of the study of religious literature, while these works are often banned and ignored in academic circles. Should religious literature be banned? Studied?
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  2. Religion in Literature

Books About the Dead Sea Scroll

The Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden in the caves of Qumran, and finally discovered in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956. Read more about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project

Several full-length Islamic texts are presented in English translation. Sites contain search functions.

American Catholic Online

Essays, articles and news of interest to the Catholic Faith are published here.

And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible

This site provides a nicely detailed and straight-forward accounting of all sexual references in the Bible, presented without commentary in dictionary format.

Bibliography of Quaker Readings

Find a somewhat terse listing of books and pamphlets on the Quaker faith, some with unexplained recommendations.

Gnostic Society

An extensive collection of Gnostic scriptures and commentary. Has a helpful search function and some clips from lectures in Real Audio.

Holy Qur'an

Many translations of the Holy Qur'an by M.H. Shakir are presented here.

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