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Scripture

Christianity the Old and New Testaments
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Scripture

 

Jewish and Christian religious books forming the Bible and written “under divine inspiration,” according to religious doctrine. In Judaism only the Old Testament is regarded as Scripture; in Christianity both the Old and the New Testament are so regarded. In Islam the Koran is analogous to Scripture.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The names on them take on the status of holy writ and you can get manic about backing them, no matter what.
Verities rooted in religious truth and holy writ like the Torah, the Bible or the Koran have transcendent sanction.
This will undoubtedly lead to her becoming a national treasure, her every pronouncement being taken as Holy Writ, whether or not it makes sense.
tribes any Any belief or artefact can be turned to evil use by those who, through either ignorance or near-madness, misinterpret what is perceived as Holy Writ in their particular faith.
The punishment meted out to those convicted of crimes should be based on our Constitution and the body of laws that flow from it, not a government official's interpretation of holy writ.
He is no toady; as he writes about Elizabeth Bishop: "Still, it should be possible to admire Bishop's genuine, and considerable, achievement without treating her every scribble as holy writ."
There was virtually no resistance as Holy Writ was a substitute for secular law.
(The researchers define normal weight as <25.0 BMI; overweight, 25.0-29.9 BMI; and obese, [greater than or equal to]30.0 BMI.) Nonetheless, the BMI has become holy writ, and losing weight has become a cultural obsession.
And then it reads, right there in Holy Writ, "But their story seemed like nonsense." Impossible nonsense.
They are often surprised to learn that the Samaritans, who accept only the Pentateuch as Holy Writ, are a vital, intelligent group with a rich history and a distinctive language and literature, practicing their own form of worship and following age-old traditions and customs.
But even Holy Writ must be redacted when it doesn't gibe with military-industrial advertisers.
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