Scripture is a technical term for writings that are definitively characteristic of particular religious traditions. It is more specific than the term religious text, which scholars can apply even to mythological and ritual texts from ancient religions, where records of their authority (or heresy) have not survived. Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief especially a religion that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief Scholars of comparative religion investigate the different reasoning that lies behind why various traditions determine some writings to be scripture and others not.

This can be illustrated by the ancient documentation of an Egyptian cult of Aten, which lasted little more than a generation, having been suppressed as heresy. Ancient Egypt was an Ancient Civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now Alternative use the Aten asteroids named after 2062 Aten Aten (or Aton was the disk of the Sun in ancient Egyptian Although texts in praise of Aten, like the Great Hymn to the Aten, perhaps were Aten scriptures, they cannot be considered definitive of the mainstream ancient Egyptian scriptures. The Great Hymn to the Aten was found in the tomb of Ay, in the rock tombs at Amarna. On the other hand, the Nicene Creed is an early Christian description of their beliefs. The Nicene Creed (ˈnaɪsiːn is an ecumenical Christian statement of faith accepted in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Assyrian Church of However, although this is clearly a religious text, and is still highly valued by Christians today, they do not consider it scripture. Scriptures are a very specific type of religious text.

Contents 1 Etymology and usage 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Etymology and usage

The term scripture arose as an English translation of Judaeo-Christian usage and was applied, by analogy, to the scriptures of other traditions. It is commonly used in reference to the Christian Bible and Islamic Koran. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin The Qur’an ( القرآن, literally "the recitation" also sometimes transliterated as Qur’ān, Koran, Alcoran

• scriptum
• graphai
• ketuvim

See also

• manuscript
• Biblical canon

References

External links

• [1] MP3 Sephardic-style Hebrew Bible
• [2]] MP3 Complete Hebrew Bible
• [3] MP3 תורה נביאים כתובים
• [4]The Westminster Leningrad Codex (4. A manuscript is any Document that is Written by hand as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way A Biblical canon or canon of scripture is a list or Set of Biblical books considered to be authoritative as Scripture by a particular religious 9)
• [5] The Hebrew Bible in XML (BHS/Parallel/KJV)
• [6] MP3 Greek New Testament
• [7] Multilingual Bible: Search, Read, Study

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