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'''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 Definiton 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 Definiton 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.
<center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of the '''''[[Bible]]''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Bible '''''this link'''''].</center>
==Etymology and usage==
==Etymology and usage==
''Scripture'' is derived from [[Latin]] '':la:scriptura'' (writing), and [[cognate]] to Old French ''escriture'' and modern '':fr:écriture''. The oldest English usage cited in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (OED) is from ''Cursor Mund]'' (''c''. 1300): "For-þi es godd, als sais scripture." The OED also cites Encyclopædia Britannica (23rd ed., 1888): "The revelation of God in nature is presupposed by that in Scripture."
''Scripture'' is derived from [[Latin]] '':la:scriptura'' (writing), and [[cognate]] to Old French ''escriture'' and modern '':fr:écriture''. The oldest English usage cited in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (OED) is from ''Cursor Mund]'' (''c''. 1300): "For-þi es godd, als sais scripture." The OED also cites Encyclopædia Britannica (23rd ed., 1888): "The revelation of God in nature is presupposed by that in Scripture."