Leviticus

Exodus

The story starts with the Israelites living in Egypt after Joseph’s era.

The Book of Genesis

My notes on the first book of the Old Testament

The Old Testament

Each book of The Old Testament

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is king of Uruk; he is ⅔ god and ⅓ man and is a tyrannical ruler and big-time rapist.  It's going to be a challenge to find philosophical and stoic parallels, I think!

Bhagavad Gita

The Gita is a power struggle between two sides of a family: Dhritarashtra, the Kauravas, and their cousins, the Pandavas.

Mahabharata

Book 2 (Sabha Parva) of the Mahabharata