Sacred text (MLA)

Works cited entries

The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. Edited by Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger, Revised Standard Version, Oxford UP, 1965.

The Qur’an: Translation. Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, 2001.

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