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Holy book
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A dime a dozen Scriptures |
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Divine scribblings |
“”SCRIPTURES, noun; The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
“”What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
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—Carl Sagan, Contact[1] |
“”Why should one think that God performed the miracle of inspiring the words of the Bible, if he didn't perform the miracle of preserving the words of the Bible?
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—Bart Ehrman[2] |
A holy book is a text sacred to a particular religion. Not to be confused with a holey book, a book that has been eaten by worms, though there is some overlap between the two categories.
Notable Holy Books
- In order of approximate publication dates:
- The Vedas (~1500 BCE)[3]
- The Upanishads (Primary texts written during 8th-6th Century BCE, but several minor texts have been written as late as the 1500s.)[4]
- The Avesta (Zoroastrianism)
- The Torah (Compiled between 600-400 BCE from scrolls dating back to 1200 BCE)[5] Or maybe a much later date…[6]
- The Tao Te Ching (6th century BCE)[7]
- The Mozi (Mohism, c. 5th century BC)
- The Bible (Compiled from books written between 1200 BCE and 150-200 CE)[8] (Re-route back to the Torah observation two lines up.)
- The Qur'an (Roughly 650 CE)[9]
- Bardo Thodol/Tibetan Book of the Dead (14th century/1927)
- The Guru Granth Sahib of Sikhism [10]
- Calculus textbooks (17th century)[11]
- The Book of Mormon (19th century)[12]
- The Aqdas (19th century)
- The Canonical Codes (Cao Dai, 1920s)
- Dianetics (20th century)[13]
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (20th century)[14]
- The Principia Discordia (20th century)[15]
- The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (21st Century)[16]
See also
References
- ↑ Contact: A Novel by Carl Sagan (1985) Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0671434004. Chapter 10 (p. 164)
- ↑ Heyns Lecture Series, April 25, 2007
- ↑ Internet Sacred Text Archives: Hindusim — The Vedas
- ↑ Internet Sacred Text Archive: The Upanishads
- ↑ The Hebrew Bible in English
- ↑ This discusses some of the issues.
- ↑ Encyclopedia Britannica: Lao-tzu
- ↑ BibleGateway.com
- ↑ Mr. Mohammed, Esq.
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Guru Granth Sahib.
- ↑ See Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, as in "simultaneously and independently", as they say in College Bowls.
- ↑ Joseph Smith
- ↑ L. Ron Hubbard
- ↑ The honourable Douglas Adams
- ↑ The Wholey Booque of Discordians Everywhere
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.