Which of the following have you read (or read parts of)?

Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Riane Eisler's Sacred Pleasure
some Wiccan & pagan stuff, some Native American stuff

The Icelandic Eddas are the only ones I've read all the way through.

I'm on a heeeyuge Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha kick lately. The Other Bible is my new. . well, Bible. Also nibbling at Western Esoteric stuff, Hermeticism, Golden Dawn, Gnosticism (that's not really esoterica). Book of the SubGenius (X day is less than a month away!) Lots of Kabbalah, including stuff form the Zohar, the Bahir and Sefer Yetzirah) Only tidbits of the Qu'ran a CRIMINALLY small amount of Buddhist, Taoist and other Eastern text. I read the Prose Edda (mostly). Say, what about classical Greek mythology? what's the corpus from which Zeus, Hera and that lot are drawn from? anyone know offhand? Oh! and the Mahabarata, the Mabinogion -- don't forget those (havne't read much of them)

Miscellaneous Greco-Roman mythology.

Principia Discordia.

I have read some of/know a little bit about the Bible, Torah, and Koran. I've read a lot of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian type stuff, yes including Ch'an koans, the Tao Te Ching, and the Analects. I know I read something called the Rig Veda (?) and some other Indian stuff in an Eastern Philosophy class, but I don't remember it anymore. I read Greek mythology in high school.

Some Norse mythology, Greek, Roman, etc. Various Pagan writings.

The bible, and lots of Zen koans and Buddhist/Chinese/Japanese writings. I've also read many, many native folk stories from around the world, and many of those contain religious tales.

Shopping for religious writings story: I was searching a local (good) bookstore for some Norse writings, some time ago (ten years, maybe?). They has two or three full shelf units devoted to Religion and I scoured through them unsuccessfully. I had probably spent the better part of an hour. One of the clerks came over and asked if she could help me find anything. I said yes and told her what I was looking for. She gently redirected me to the Mythology section. I hadn't even thought to make the distinction.

Unfortunately I haven't read most of these. My education in comparative religion is far from complete. It is fully my intention to read the Quran and Vedas. Never thought much about the rest. And according to my own philosophies I can not discount any of them as valid until I have read them. It wouldn't be fair to make judgements based on what others say of these writings. ***Daver: funny story. I personally keep my Norse writings on the same shelf in the den with the stuff on Christian and Eastern religion.

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gno gnostic gtexts? I really like the old Sumerian Inanna stories.

at one point it was my goal to read translated copies of any religious writings(I wanted to try to understand what all the hoopla was about), I got up through kings II in the bible and stopped.. I found it an wonderfully vivid account of how much humanity disgusts me. I may try again when I patience for such a thing increases. **Lizzie, thank you for reminding me. I have read that as well. I have also read mythological writings from various sources (mostly norse and greek, and a wide smattering of other things in small amounts).

"The Book of the SubGenius" and the "Book of Mormon"

and the mormons book (only parts of it).

The Tao of Pooh. wow, I'm the only person who checked "none". *hide*

Do Norse and Greek/Roman mythology count

What about Dyanetics? (I didn't read it, but I think Jen did)...

of the ones i checked - bible, vedas, zen koans, tao te ching, icelandic eddas - there is not one that i have read in its entirety. i have, however, read the entire Pricipia Discordia, does that count? also, several Subgenius writings, i suppose these count as well.

only the bible, and not even much of that.

I took a humanities class entitled, "The Roots of Hell" in my first year of college. We examined the various depictions of hell of various religions around the globe. Some religions have very creative ideas when compared with Christianity. ***** Disclaimer: I am not suggesting that Christianity or any other religion is based on an invented theory.

Book of Mormon (left on my doorstep)

well...I checked NONE, but I have read Revalation and part of Ecclesiates and Matthew in the Bible...but I don't suppose that counts, does it?

I would like to read more of these...

Most of these. Also some kabala and the book of mormon, some calvinist stuff, and a bunch of trendy newage stuff. Also some treatises on atheism and rationalism, which might or might not qualify. *** after being reminded by other people's answers: norse, greek/roman, native american, and some aboriginal Australian legends (though not any original sources), Dianetics and some other Scientology stuff, some popular neopagan/Wiccan stuff (Spiral Dance, Dreaming the Dark, Drawing Down the Moon, etc.). I made a game attempt at the Gilgamesh saga once but it defeated me; it's even more boring than the book of mormon (my second candidate for most stultifying scripture, with certain parts of the torah coming a close third). Also, I'm inclined to put the Book of Five Rings here, though it isn't really religious.

What's the difference between the bible and the Torah? Is the bible meant to be New Testament only? I've read a fair bit of the Torah in Hebrew, but not much more than that.