For me, a few are: "equus" by schaeffer a book of short stories by Jakov Lind, The Gospel of Saint Thomas, Juvenal's "Satires" The rare midle eastern/Babylonian story- also found in Bereshit/Genesis- "The visit of the Three" The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Confessio Amantis.
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Like you the Gospel of Thomas would probably be at the top of the list.  I would add the Gospel of Mary and parts of the book of Epiphanius (specifically book 33 of The Medicine Chest).  I also skimmed the Malleus Maleficarum if that counts.\n\nInteresting Question, I hope you get some more answers.\n\nRegards,\nArmus
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discovered in 1886 buried with a monk in egypt, did you get to the part about the milky white skin and blonde hair of everyone in heaven, and the whores hanging from their hair, I read the Nag Hammadi library too, and there was a book in the early 70s called the Lost Books of the Bible, oh how bout the part where Jesus killed some of his play mates and his school teacher cause they pissed him off
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The Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield.\n\nIt gives a different slant on experiencing life.
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there 's surely more than 10, but here's my choice\nhis birth, baptism by John, first miracle at Cana, sermon on the mount, last supper, prayer at the garden, crucifixtion, raising from the dead, road to Emmaus, ascension
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The most famous literary work from that period is The Pilgrim's Progress.  It is considered a Puritan classic.  Read about it at Wikipedia.  \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_tales
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No but some years back in San Francisco I saw a partial exhibit which included the whole scroll of the book of Isaiah. Awesome! It was laid out under temperature control ed glass. I cannot read Hebrew so I could not read it for myself.
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Anything by Charles deLint.  He has books of short stories and full novels.
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I would vote for A Midsummer Night's Dream.  It's a great dose of comic silliness with just enough philosophical inquiry into the relationship between dream and reality to give you food for thought.  The last scene alone is worth the price of admission (or rental, or the cost of a good book).
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Most everything in the OLD texts were spoken stories passed from one generation to another. The original text ... I couldn't tell you. The original basis for all of these texts .....ancient fables told to the young (and old) to instruct them on how to live their lives.\n\nGood luck!! - Egypt is always a good place to start looking.
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hanging gardens of babylon\nbanaue rice terraces\ni think there are lots
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There's not terribly much out there on the web.  This is what I could find:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chibcha+%28religion%2C+god%2C+goddess%2C+myth%2C+mythology%2C+folklore%2C+folktales%29&btnG=Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=muisca+%28religion%2C+god%2C+goddess%2C+myth%2C+mythology%2C+folklore%2C+folktales%29&btnG=Search\n\nThis book is out-of-print, but there seems to be one used available on Amazon: \n"Some folk-tales of the Chibcha Nation" by Malbone W Graham\n\nThere are more (also out-of-print) books listed at Amazon if you search for "Chibcha" or "Muisca," but they are all in Spanish.
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Ok, i got 2 good ones. The story aboout Balaal and the talking donkey at Numbers 22; 28- 35\nAlso Absalom getting stuck in the tree from his hair at 2 Samuel 18; 9\n\nHere's some more doozies;  Jacob dressing up and getting hairy like Esau in Genesis 27; 15 - 40\nIsraelites disobeying Moses about the manna provision and getting worms in their food at Exodus 16; 19 and 20\nMy personal favorite is Exodus 32; 24 where Aaron is explaining to Moses how he took the jewelry from the people , threw it into the fire , and the golden calf happened to come out on its own. What he really did is mentioned at verse 4.
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I've always enjoyed the tales of Hermes. They are interesting.\n\nAnd Be Hostile: Allah, God and Yahweh are one and the same. He has his roots in Judaism.
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I also have a list given to me by a college bound program I attended. I'll name several (it has more than 20):\n\nAnimal Farm, George Orwell\nBrave New World, Aldous Huxley\nFahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury\nLord of the Flies, William Golding\nGreat Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald\nScarlet Letter, Nathaniel Harthorne\nSiddhartha, Herman Hesse\nTo Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee\nPride and Prejudice, Jane Austen\n\nI also provided a link in sources where there are many others. Enjoy :]
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the power of one is great and the catcher in the rye, but the lord of the rings and the silmarillion are also top shelf. \n\n\nthe bible is a collection of books not one book
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There are four versions, and I mean by "version" accepted cannon and not translations because obviously there are thousands of those, of what people refer to as the "Bible". The Catholic version, which has 73 books in it. The Protestant version, which has 66 books in it. The Coptic version, which has 75 books in it. And the Jewish version, which has 49 books in it. These four versions cover two specific faiths, Christianism and Judaism. Of all those books NOT ONE original document or even a known trustwothy COPY of an original document exists. Of the five major world monotheistic faiths (Christianism, Islam, Judaism, Bahai, and Sikh) only ONE can rightly claim and prove via historical documentation, that in turn can be proved correct, that its Holy Book has never been altered or ammended. And that faith is Islam. The Koran is a beautiful Holy Book, filled with light and wisdom. I own various translations and at least one copy in Arabic (true Koran) that was a gift to me from the Saudi Arabian Embassy. I've read the Koran more than any other religious text. I am not Muslim. BUT ... I am honest with myself and others. A lack of honesty and open mindedness on my part would in no way alter the Truth. And the Truth is that Holy Koran IS the ONLY uncorrupted religious text in existance today. People of faith need to be honest enough to admit that and open minded enough to read it, and THAT with an open mind. They are not being fair to THEMSELVES when they make a decision about a thing without first having investigated it. ~ Peace & Blessings ~