Books that are considered sacred by at least one religion. For sacred books as a trope in fiction, see Sacred Scripture. The latter will also tell you more about the genre.
Note that not every text concerned with religion is also considered sacred. For instance, within Christianity, The Bible is considered holy, but theological or devotional literature, the Lives of Saints, and Christian fiction are not.
Also, the status of a text as sacred may be ambiguous even within a single religion, as one branch of a religion may regard a specific text sacred while another doesn't. For the purpose of this index, it is enough if one branch regards it as sacred.
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Ancient Greek Religion
Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Religion(s)
Christianity and Judaism
- The Bible. The whole book for Christianity, the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) for Judaism. The Torah (Tawrat), the Psalms (Zabur) and the Gospel (Injil) are recognized as based on divine revelation by Islam, but assumed to be corrupted in their biblical form. The Bible contains the following (among others):
- Book of Genesis
- Book of Exodus
- Book of Joshua
- Book of Judges
- Book of Ruth
- Books of Samuel
- Books of Kings
- Book of Ezra
- Book of Nehemiah
- Book of Esther
- Book of Job
- Book of Psalms
- Book of Proverbs
- Book of Ecclesiastes
- Song of Songs
- Book of Isaiah
- Book of Jeremiah
- Book of Ezekiel
- Book of Daniel
- Book of Hosea
- Book of Joel
- Book of Amos
- Book of Obadiah
- Book of Jonah
- Book of Micah
- Book of Nahum
- Book of Habakkuk
- Book of Zephaniah
- Book of Haggai
- Book of Zechariah
- Book of Malachi
- The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books
Christianity only
- Books of the New Testament:
- The Four Gospels
- Acts of the Apostles
- Book of Romans
- Book of Corinthians
- Book of Galatians
- Book of Ephesians
- Book of Philippians
- Book of Colossians
- Books of Thessalonians
- Epistles to Timothy
- Epistle to Titus
- Epistle to Philemon
- Book of Hebrews
- Epistle of James
- Epistles of Peter
- Epistles of John
- Epistle of Jude
- Book of Revelation
Mormonism only
Judaism only
Discordianism
Hinduism
Islam
K'iche' Maya Religion
Scientology
- Dianetics: Also known as Book One among Scientologists and the starting point of Scientology's alternative calendar ("AD" = "After Dianetics")