Religion Related

Religion related books I have read:

• The Bible (Old and New Testament).
  — I started reading The New Testament when I was a little boy  in a disorderly way , I read it in Arabic and in French and English.Then I began reading the Old Testament book by book , and after a few years of irregular reading I managed to read most of the Bible.
• The Quran.
  — At first I read the entire Quran in French  , then I read parts of it in Arabic and English.
• The City of God ( by Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine).
  — I read half of the book in French and the second half in English.
  
  

  St Augustine

• History of the people of Israel (Volume 1): Till the time of King David (by Ernest Renan).
• God is not great ( by Christopher Hitchens).
• Why I am not a Christian ( by Bertrand Russell).
• The Theogony ( by Hesiod).
• Zeus (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World) ( by Ken Dowden).
• Athena (by Susan Deacy).
• The Religion of Ancient Egypt ( by W. M. Flinders Petrie).

Religion related books I have read in French:

• L‘Histoire des origines du christianisme :Les Apôtres , Saint Paul  (The history of the origins of Christianity : The apostles -Saint Paul , by Ernest Renan).
• Les Confessions ( Confessions by Saint Augustine).
• Moïse et le monothéisme ( Moses and Monotheism , by Sigmund Freud).
• Biographie de Jésus ( by Jean-claude Barreau).
• Des eunuques pour le royaume des cieux : L’Eglise catholique et la Sexualité ( Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven: Women, sexuality, and the Catholic Church , by Uta Ranke-Heinemann ).
• Le mythe de l’éternel retour  (The Myth of the Eternal Return , by Mircea Eliade ).
• Le Zoroastrisme (Que sais-je? , by Paul Du Breuil).
• Le procès de Jésus ( Que sais-je? , by Jean Imbert)
• La Théologie catholique ( Que sais-je? , by Charles Wackenheim)
• L’Islam ( Que sais-je? ,  by Dominique Sourdel).
• La Mythologie Grecque ( Que sais-je? , by Pierre Grimal ).

Some of the books I read by Nietzsche ( see my philosophy books page) are related to (mostly the Christian ) religion,
and I’ve mentioned in my literary books page  the Life of Jesus by Renan and the Iliad by Homer (read in French) , which are also religion related.

Religion related books I have read in Arabic:

• Life of  Jesus ( by G. W. F. Hegel). I read this book in Arabic.
• مناهج الشريعة الاسلامية للشيخ احمد محيي الدين العجوز
  –This is  a book about the different paths of Islamic law.

Religion (and mythology) related reference books I have consulted:

• A Dictionary of the Bible (Oxford University Press).
• The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary (by Merrill F. Unger , and R.K. Harrison , editor).
• The Encyclopedia of World Religions , Revised Edition ( Robert S. Ellwood , General editor).
  
• Encyclopedia of Buddhism ( by Edward A. Irons and  J. Gordon Melton).
• The Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology (by Pierre Grimal , Edited by Stephen Kershaw).
• Classical Mythology , Seventh Edition ( by Mark P.O. Morford and Robert J. Lenardon).
• The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses , Second Edition ( by George Hart).
• Articles concerning  religion in The Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia.