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020			_a9781138681309
040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
245	1	0	_aReading the Sacred Scriptures: From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception
264		0	_aAbingdon & New York : _bRoutledge _c2018
520	3		_aContains 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.
650		0	_9248 _aSacred Books - History and Criticism _vBaha'i Faith
700			_aFiachra Long _91873 _eEditor
700			_aSiobhan Dowling Long _91874 _eEditor
856	4	1	_uhttps://www.routledge.com/Reading-the-Sacred-Scriptures-From-Oral-Tradition-to-Written-Documents/Long-Dowling-Long/p/book/9781138681309 _yReading the Sacred Scriptures From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception
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