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2. Bible - Wikipedia

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   Latin biblia sacra "holy books" translates Greek τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια (tà biblía tà hágia, "the holy books"). [8] Medieval Latin biblia is short for biblia sacra "holy book". It gradually came to be regarded as a feminine singular noun ( biblia , gen. bibliae ) in medieval Latin, and so the word was loaned as singular into the ...

3. List of religious texts - Wikipedia

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   Most Protestant Bibles include the Hebrew Bible's 24 books (the protocanonical books) divided differently (into 39 books) and the 27-book New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some denominations (e.g. Anglicanism) also include the 14 books of the biblical apocrypha between the Old Testament and the New Testament, for a total of 80 books.

4. Islamic holy books - Wikipedia

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   The Injil was the holy book revealed to Jesus , according to the Quran. Most scholars and Muslims believe that it refers not to the New Testament but to an original Gospel given to Jesus as the word of Allah.

5. Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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   In the prophetic books, a prophet denounces evil or predicts what God will do in the future. A prophet might also describe and interpret visions. The Book of Daniel is the only book in the Tanakh usually described as apocalyptic literature. However, other books or parts of books have been called proto-apocalyptic, such as Isaiah 24–27, Joel ...

6. Torah - Wikipedia

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   The Book of Numbers is the fourth book of the Torah. [33] The book has a long and complex history, but its final form is probably due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a Yahwistic source made some time in the early Persian period (5th century BCE). [6] The name of the book comes from the two censuses taken of the Israelites.

7. Religious text - Wikipedia

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   The Rigveda (Vedic chant) manuscript in Devanagari, a scripture of Hinduism, dated 1500–1000 BCE.It is the oldest religious text in any Indo-European language. A Sephardic Torah scroll, containing the first section of the Hebrew Bible, rolled to the first paragraph of the Shema.