| '''Scripture''' is a term for writings that are definitively characteristic of particular religious traditions, (John Miller and Aaron Kenedi. ''God's Breath: Sacred Scriptures of the World: The Essential Texts of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Suf.'' Marlowe and Company, New York, 2000) called "sacred writings." [http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Scripture Dictionary definition of "scripture" from Houghton Mifflin] It is more specific than the term ''religious [[text]]'', [http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/RELIGIOUSTEXT Definitoon of "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. | | '''Scripture''' is a term for writings that are definitively characteristic of particular religious traditions, (John Miller and Aaron Kenedi. ''God's Breath: Sacred Scriptures of the World: The Essential Texts of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Suf.'' Marlowe and Company, New York, 2000) called "sacred writings." [http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Scripture Dictionary definition of "scripture" from Houghton Mifflin] It is more specific than the term ''religious [[text]]'', [http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/RELIGIOUSTEXT Definitoon of "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. |