2000–1000 BC
This bookshelf gathers major religious, legal, literary, and cultural texts connected to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hebrew scripture, India, and early world civilizations from 2000 to 1000 BC. These works include Egyptian funerary traditions, early legal systems, biblical texts, Vedic literature, Assyrian and Hebrew hymns, and foundational Indian epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Together, they help visitors explore the development of sacred literature, law, ritual, poetry, mythology, and moral imagination across ancient civilizations.
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The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, or The Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead
The Egyptian hieroglyphic text edited from numerous papyri, by E. A. Wallis Budge. Books on Egypt and Chaldaea, v. 28–30. Contents: v. 1. Text. v. 2. Translation. v. 3. Vocabulary.
The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise
Half-title: Columbia University Oriental Studies.
Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda
Translated from the original Sanskrit by Arthur Berriedale Keith. Harvard Oriental Series, v. 25. “Printed from type at the University Press, Oxford, England, by Frederick Hall, printer.” “First edition, 1920, one thousand copies.”
The Book of Psalms, According to the Eastern Version
Translated from the original Aramaic sources by George M. Lamsa. Syriac word and symbol for the triune God at head of title.
The Chinese Classics
Edited and translated by James Legge. Volumes are shelved by period: v. 1 and v. 5 (600–500 BC, items 22A and 22B), v. 2 (400–300 BC, 105A), v. 3 (2000–1000 BC, 13A) and v. 4 (1000–800 BC, 8C).
Hymns from the Rigveda
Selected and metrically translated by A. A. Macdonell. The Heritage of India Series. “The introduction supplies a brief sketch of the form and contents of the Rigveda.” —p. 4.
The Oxford Self-Pronouncing Bible
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command; appointed to be read in churches. Authorized King James version. "Long…
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Condensed into English Verse
Condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt. Everyman's Library, ed. by Ernest Rhys (Philosophy and Theology). Title within ornamental border. “A note on the late Romesh C. Dutt,” by S. K. Ratcliffe. Bibliography: p. xi–xii.
The Ramayana of Valmiki (in the North-Western Recension)
Edited for the first time from original mss. by Vishva-Bandhu Shastri. The D.A.-V. College Sanskrit Series. Added t.-p. and text in Sanskrit; paged with Sanskrit numerals. Library lacks v. 1.
A Panorama of the World’s Legal Systems
With five hundred illustrations. “The sixteen principal legal systems, past and present, form the subject: Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Chinese, Hindu, Greek, Roman, Japanese, Mohammedan, Keltic, Slavic, Germanic, maritime, ecclesiastical, Romanesque, Anglican.” —Author's note.