TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fiachra Long
AU  - Siobhan Dowling Long
TI  - Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception
SN  - 9781138681309
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Abingdon & New York : 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sacred Books - History and Criticism
KW  - Baha'i Faith
N2  - Contains article: Momen, Moojan (2018). The reading of Scripture: A Bahá’i approach. in Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception. Fiachra Long and Siobhán Dowling Long. Abingdon & New York, Routledge: 137-154, 

Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception examines how the scriptures came to be written and how their authority has been constructed and reinforced over time. Highlighting the measures taken to safeguard the stability of oral accounts, this book demonstrates the care of religious communities to maintain with reverence their assembled parchments and scrolls. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection chronicles the development of the scriptures from oral tradition to written documents and their reception. It features notable essays on the scriptures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Shinto, and Baha'i.
UR  - https://www.routledge.com/Reading-the-Sacred-Scriptures-From-Oral-Tradition-to-Written-Documents/Long-Dowling-Long/p/book/9781138681309
ER  -