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| Primary Sources and How to Read Them | |
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| The Ancient World | |
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| The First Civilizations Mesopotamia: The Land of Two Rivers | |
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| The Search for Eternal Life in Mesopotamia | |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh Bringing Order to an Uncertain World | |
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| The Judgments of Hammurabi Egypt: The River of Two Lands | |
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| The Search for Eternal Life in Egypt | |
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| Three Mortuary Texts Another Side of Egyptian Life | |
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| A Crib Incantation and Two Love Songs China: The Land of the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers | |
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| The Mandate of Heaven | |
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| The Book of Documents Zhou Viewed from Above and Below | |
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| The Book of Songs Mute Testimony Bringing in the Sheaves | |
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| A Tassili Rock Painting Cultural Impressions | |
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| Indus, Mesopotamian, and Cretan Seals Sacred Kingship along the Nile | |
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| Two Temple Reliefs | |
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| Newcomers: From Nomads to Settlers The Indo-Europeans Life, Death, and the Gods in Aryan India | |
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| The Rig Veda A Journey to the Underworld | |
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| Homer, The Odyssey | |
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| The Israelites and Their Neighbors Establishing a Covenant with Humanity | |
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| The Book of Genesis Establishing a Covenant with a Chosen People | |
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| The Book of Deuteronomy | |
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| Transcendental Reality: Developing the Spiritual Traditions of India and Southwest Asia: 800200 B.C.E. | |
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| The Emergence of Brahminical Hinduism The Hindu Search for Divine Reality | |
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| The Upanishads Dharma: The Imperative of Caste Law | |
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| The Bhagavad Gita | |
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| A Challenge to Caste: The Teachings of the Buddha | |
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| The Path to Enlightenment | |
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| The Buddha, Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law | |
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| The Poison Arrow of Needless Speculation | |
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| The Buddha, Questions that Tend | |
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| Not to Edification Persians, Israelites, and Their Gods | |
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| The Struggle Between Good and Evil | |
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| Zarathustra, Gathas | |
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| A Covenant for All Peoples | |
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| The Book of Isaiah | |
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| The Secular Made Sacred: Developing the Humanistic Traditions of China and Hellas: 600200 | |
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| B.C.E. China: Thought in Search of Harmony Daoism: The Way That Is and Is Not | |
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| Laozi, The Classic of the Way and Virtue | |
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| Confucianism: The Moral Way of the Past | |
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| Confucius, The Analects Legalism: The Way of the State | |
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| Han Fei, The Writings of Master Han Fei Yin and Yang and the Dao of Good Health | |
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| The Yellow Emperor's | |
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| Classic of Medicine Hellenic Civilization: A Rational Inquiry into Life Hellenic Medicine | |
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| Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease | |
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| The Athenian as Citizen | |
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| Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Bacchic Maenads: Feminine Religious Ecstacy | |
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| Euripides, The Bacchae Socrates' Defense of Philosophy | |
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| Plato, Apologia Art and the Human Form | |
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| Three Hellenic Works of Art | |
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| Regional Empires and Afro-Eurasian Interchange, 300 B.C.E.500 C.E. | |
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| The Greco-Roman World Images of the Hellenistic World | |
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| Four Hellenistic Sculptures Rome Viewed from the Underworld | |
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| Virgil, The Aeneid Queen Boudica and the Pax Romana | |
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| Tacitus, Agricola and Annals Han China | |
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| Two Views on How to Deal with Empire | |
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| Huan Kuan, Discourses on Salt and Iron | |
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| A Woman's Place as Viewed by a Female Confucian | |
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| Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women India in the Age of Empires | |
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| The Softening Effects of Dharma | |
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| Asoka, Rock and Pillar Edicts | |
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| Sacred Law in Classical India | |
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| The Laws of Manu | |
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| Long-Distance Travel and Exchange | |
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| India and China Viewed from Rome | |
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| Pliny the Elder, Natural History Faxian's | |
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| Homeward Voyage | |
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| Faxian, Travels | |
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| The Transit of Images along Trade Routes | |
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| Five Robed Statues | |
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| Faith, Devotion, and Salvation: Great World Religions to 1500 | |
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| New Developments in Three Ancient Religions | |
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| Mahayana Buddhism: A Religion of Infinite Compassion Perceiver of the World's | |
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| Sounds: A Bodhisattva for All Emergencies | |
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| Tales of Guanshiyin Images of Compassion | |
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| Three Bodhisattvas Bhakti: The Way of Devotion | |
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| The Way of Supreme Love | |
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| Narada, The Bhakti Sutra Shiva, Auspicious Destroyer | |
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| Shiva Nataraja Rabbinical Judaism | |
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| A Defense of the Law | |
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| Flavius Josephus, Against Apion Jacob's Seed | |
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| Maimonides, Selected Writings | |
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| Christianity: Conquering the World for Christ | |
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| The Foundations of Christianity | |
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| Becoming Spiritually Perfect | |
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| The Gospel of Saint Matthew | |
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| The Path to Righteousness: The Law or Faith? | |
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| Saint Paul, Epistle to the Romans | |
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| Christianity and the Roman World | |
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| Rome's Policy toward Christians | |
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| Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Letters | |
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| Regarding Christians | |
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| Why Are Christians Persecuted? | |
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| Tertullian, Apologia Persecution and Deliverance | |
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| Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History | |
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| The Christian Emperor | |
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| The Barberini Ivory Beyond the Roman | |
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| World Georgia Becomes a Christian State | |
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| Rufinus of Aquileia, Church History | |
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| Christianity Comes to China | |
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| Bishop Adam, The Christian Monument | |
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| Religious Exchange and Interchange | |
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| Gnostic Christianity: The Secret Knowledge of Jesus | |
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| The Gospel of Thomas Manichaeism: Enlightening the World | |
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| The Parable About the World-Ocean | |
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| Islam: Universal Submission to God | |
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| The Foundations of Islamic Life | |
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| The Word of God | |
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| The Quran | |
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| The Tales of Tradition | |
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| Iman Nawawi, Gardens of the Righteous | |
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| Muhammad's Night | |
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| Journey and Ascent to Heaven | |
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| Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life of the Messenger of God | |
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| The First Formulation of Sharia: God's Law | |
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| Malik ibn Anas, The Smoothed Path | |
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| Variety and Unity within Islam God's | |
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| Martyrs: The Party of Ali | |
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| Ibn Babawayh al-Saduq, Creed concerning the Imams | |
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| An African Pilgrim to Mecca | |
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| Mahmud Kati, The Chronicle of the Seeker | |
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| The Sufi Path | |
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| Jalaluddin al-Rumi, Poems, and Ahmed al-Aflaki, The Virtues of Those Who Know Islam and Unbelievers | |
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| The Dhimma | |
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| Ibn Muslama's | |
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| Pact with the Christians of Tiflis and The Pact of Umar | |
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| The Jewish Community of Twelfth-Century Baghdad | |
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| Benjamin of Tudela, Book of Travels Fourteenth-Century | |
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| Hindu Dhimmis | |
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| The Deeds of Sultan Firuz Shah III. Continuity, Change, and | |
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| Interchange: 5001500 | |
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| Asia: Change in the Context of Tradition Japan: Creating a Distinctive Civilization | |
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| The Constitution of Prince Shotoku | |
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| Chronicles of Japan Lives and Loves at the Heian Court | |
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| Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book | |
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| The Ideal Samurai | |
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| Chronicle of the Grand Pacification | |
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| China: The Ages of Tang and Song | |
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| Imperial Greatness and Disaster in Eighth-Century China | |
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| Du Fu, Poems The Bartered Bride: China and the Uighurs in an Age of Civil War | |
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| The Old Tang History | |
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| The Dao of Agriculture in Song China | |
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| Chen Pu, The Craft of Farming | |
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| Thirteenth-Century Hangzhou | |
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| A Record of Musings on the Eastern Capital | |
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| Buddhism in East Asia: Acceptance, Rejection, and Accomodation | |
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| Buddhism Comes to China: The Story of the Nun An Lingshou | |
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| Shi Baochang, Lives of the Nuns | |
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| A Conflict of Values: Buddhism in Late Tang China | |
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| Han Yu, Memorial on Buddhism | |
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| A Japanese Monk in China | |
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| Tales from Uji Southwest Asia: Crossroads of the Afro-Eurasian World | |
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| The Arrival of the Turks | |
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| Al-Jahiz, The Merits of the Turks and of the Imperial Army as a Whole Muslims and Franks in the Crusader States | |
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| Ibn Jubayr, Travels Sinbad's | |
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| First Voyage | |
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| A Thousand and One Arabian Nights India: Continuity and Change Nalanda: C | |