Reading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception

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.