The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions

By Philip Novak

Book Overview

A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and grace notes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060663421
• ISBN13: 9780060663421
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference Material

This book, filled with excerpts of sacred texts of many of the major world religions, is a planned companion in structure to Huston Smith's masterpiece, World Religions. It offers the sacred texts without commentary or judgement to support the reader in simply BE-ing with the texts and finding their own interpretation of the essence of the writings. "The World's Wisdom" is a book I will continue to reference throughout my...

A treasure

On repeated visits to the bookstore, I kept getting drawn to this book, leafing through it and inevitably had to buy it. The author wrote this book because there was no handy reference book for his students in which he could draw from all the wisdom of the various religions. The book has great wisdom derived from all the worlds major religions. It even has creation myths from different parts of the world. Interesting to...

The World's Wisdom

An excellent compliation of primary materials on world religions. Excellent, but brief introductory notes make this book an excellent companion for introductory comparative religion courses.

the best of religion

Easily the best anthology of religious writings I've seen, and I've seen quite a few. Beautiful and educational; as a teacher, I've found it very useful for religion courses. If you've any interest in religion or spirituality, this book is a must for your collection.