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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Aug. 28 2006,12:21) | | Quote (The Ghost of Paley @ Aug. 28 2006,11:16) | | By the way, I'm done with my presentation of the Koranic interpretation of Jihad, so Louis is free to respond to that part. If my formatting (i.e. scare quotes, etc.) seems eccentric, it's because I'm trying to avoid using Christian terms. |
'Scriptures' is a Christian term? ? |
'scriptures' is not a christian term, but 'Scriptures' is. Wikipedia:
| Quote | The Rigveda of Hinduism was likely composed between roughly 1500–1300 BCE, making it one of the world's oldest religious texts. The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they found written form, and although widely differing dates for Gathic Avestan (the language of the oldest texts) have been proposed, scholarly consensus floats at around 1000 BCE (roughly contemporary to the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit).
The first printed scripture for wide distribution to the masses was The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, printed in the year 868 CE.
In English language, the term scriptures can be used to describe any religion's sacred text as in Hindu scriptures, Jewish scriptures, etc. but when capitalized, in English literature, the word Scriptures generally refers to the sacred texts of the Bible, also referred to as Holy Scripture. |
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