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* The Guru Granth Sahib of [[Sikhism]] <ref>[[wp:Guru Granth Sahib|Guru Granth Sahib]]</ref>
 
* The Guru Granth Sahib of [[Sikhism]] <ref>[[wp:Guru Granth Sahib|Guru Granth Sahib]]</ref>
 
* [[Math|Calculus]] textbooks (17th century)<ref>See [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], as in "simultaneously and independently," as they say in College Bowls.</ref>
 
* [[Math|Calculus]] textbooks (17th century)<ref>See [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], as in "simultaneously and independently," as they say in College Bowls.</ref>
* [[The Origin of Species]] (19th century)<ref>[[Charles Darwin]]</ref>
 
 
* The [[Book of Mormon]] (19th century)<ref>[[Joseph Smith]]</ref>
 
* The [[Book of Mormon]] (19th century)<ref>[[Joseph Smith]]</ref>
 
* The [[Aqdas]] (19th century)
 
* The [[Aqdas]] (19th century)

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SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

A holy book is a text sacred to a particular religion. Alternatively, it is a book that has been eaten by worms.

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