The Scripturesofthe World,laid side by side.
Read the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Qur’an, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching, and the Vedas — then trace the figures, the places, and the ideas that thread through all of them.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.”
The seven corpora.
- IThe Bible — Old + New Testament (KJV, 1611)
- IIThe Torah — The first five books (JPS / KJV)
- IIIThe Qur'an — Arabic with English translation
- IVBhagavad Gita — Selections — Sir Edwin Arnold (1885)
- VVedas — Rigveda — selected hymns (Griffith)
- VIDhammapada — F. Max Müller translation (1881)
- VIITao Te Ching — James Legge translation (1891)
The same river,seen from different banks.
Noah and Nuh. Jesus and Isa. Moses and Musa. The great flood. The binding. The awakening under a tree. Every tradition has its own telling — heard together, they rhyme.
Six lives, many scriptures.
Where scripturetouches the earth.
An old-world map pinning Jerusalem, Mecca, Varanasi, Bodh Gaya, Mount Sinai, Patmos, the cave of Hira. Each pin opens the passages set there.
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“Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
This is an academic comparison, not a devotion and not a debate. Every translation here is in the public domain; every editorial note is ours and is open to correction.
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