Talk:Religious text

message: I'm going to suggest here that we merge the content of Holy Writ and Holy Scripture into a subheading if we feel that it is in keeping with the topic of this page. Disagreements? Support? Kevin Smith 12:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's go ahead and merge them, I support this. They are the same subject, rather than needlessly spread across several seperate independent articles. 208.102.209.167 17:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Please note that the quality of my merge paragraph is the best I could bang out given my limited knowledge. If anyone would like to add or edit, or if anyone protests my merge and redirection, please note it here. Kevin Smith 01:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggesting Merge 

message: I deleted the claim that the Edda was a sacred text of the Norse religion. The Norse religion didn't really have anything resembling the Bible and the Eddas are in any case written after Scandinavia became christian. In fact, they are written by christians.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by MathHisSci (talk • contribs) 18:04, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The eddas and Norse mythology

message: Should the Kaballah be incorporated in that section?
In the Hindu section I beleive the Tantras were listed though.
These seems to be more of sects or cults within these mainstream relgion. Never the less they do have their main texts.
Bill-
Oct 12, 2007  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.191.43 (talk) 03:22, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid I don't know. I'm not even sure that Kabbalah has a canon per say. Many would point to the Zohar, but to be intellectually honest, the Zohar is but one of numerous, numerous kabbalic texts coming from both jewish and non-jewish sources.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.215.118.153 (talk) 02:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  reg. Judaism & Hindu section 

message: Changed incorrect spelling: "Dao de jing" to correct spelling: "Tao Te Ching".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.80.144 (talk) 10:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling Error 

message: Posts moved below Table of Contents--Editor2020 (talk) 02:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to have been a typo, I've changed it. QVanillaQ 13:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Posts moved below Table of Contents 

message: Is this article including texts of groups that are not globally recognized as religions?  The particular to which I refer is Scientology, which German courts have ruled is not a religion. (cite and other precedents to follow; I'm typing from an iPhone) TravellerDMT-07 (talk) 21:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientology 

message: Why is a link to the Adamic Language next to the Book of Mormon?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.187.0.178 (talk) 15:30, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Be WP:Bold change it. Lihaas (talk) 02:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book of Mormon 

message: I think it would be better to put all of the explanatory sections at the top of the article, followed by the list at the bottom. Anyone disagree with that?--Editor2020 (talk) 23:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanatory text at top, list at bottom. 

message: The Yoga Vasistha is missing here. Where should it be placed? Wiki-uk (talk) 04:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hinduism -  Yoga Vasishtha 

message: I feel that the titles of the religious texts of The Creativity Movement should be added to this page's list of religious texts. That is the purpose of this discussion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeit Totzuschlagen (talk • contribs) 15:16, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Minor, self-published works don't belong here, there are thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of these all with equal claim. Dougweller (talk) 15:59, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

text: I'd love to see a third party source for that million adherents comment. Beach drifter (talk) 18:00, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creativity (religion) 

message: I came here looking for a list of which scriptures are considered sacred even in translation. I know that the Christian Bible is, and the Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu scriptures are not. What about the other major religions: Buddhism, Sikhism, Mormonism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, etc. Bostoner (talk) 02:10, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree to your point, it is important for this article to consider distinguishing that. Abdusalambaryun (talk) 02:15, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations 

message: Some lists of books have been added to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. You can find the discussions here. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alert: lists of publications in Articles for deletion 

message: Do any of the Watchtower Society's Publications also count as religious texts for the Jehovah's Witnesses? 110.174.166.224 (talk) 10:04, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jehovah's Witnesses 

message: Sunnis, Shiites and Ibadis all accept different collections of hadiths and this article needs to show that. 110.174.166.224 (talk) 10:11, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islam section needs to be expanded 

message: It is important under the Islam section to show what it considers of the Religious texts (our subject). Furthermore, we need to make sure, that other religions sections note what they consider of the religious texts (subject). For example, we should show, the Christianity considers the Tawra of Mousa, but Judaism does not consider the Bible. Therefore, it will be important to show what these religions consider other books as coming from the same God. 
Abdusalambaryun (talk) 09:12, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islam only Considers Four Holy Books

message: Why do I have to go to the end of the article to read about the religious texts of Swedenborgianism and the Unification Church? Both of these are just as Christian as the Latter Day Saints. 110.174.166.224 (talk) 10:15, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swedenborgianism and Unification Church 

message: I think it is important to mention in this Article the authors of such texts. Overall, we have many authors on books/texts so we need to make the correct identity to such book. For example, the bible has some versions with different authors, The Quran has one author, etc.  Abdusalambaryun (talk) 08:19, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious Text Authors 

message: In my opinion, the section is about the editor views, Views are with no references, so the views are for editors, but that is not best way. I recommend to delete the section or to provide references. 94.197.122.71 (talk) 22:20, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Section Views is unknown and needs references 

message: Was this a good idea? 213.109.230.96 (talk) 07:21, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion the Horizontal TOC is harder to read and navigate. Editor2020, Talk 19:45, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of contents moved to the right 

message: The oldest copy of the Kesh Temple Hymn is  typically dated to around 2600 BCE, a century or two earlier than the Pyramid Texts. R.D. Biggs, An Archaic Sumerian Version of the Kesh Temple Hymn from Tell Abū Salābīkh, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie 01/1971, pp193-207
Acleverpseudonym (talk) 23:44, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the Kesh Temple Hymn replace the Pyramid Texts in being named as the oldest religious text? 

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message: Please can an editor with experience of wikimarkup formatting script on wikipedia review my contribution of the Salvation Army. I tried copying the existing markup text but seem to have got something wrong. Perhaps the software keyboard on an ipad screen isn't giving me the right characters to get the formatting exactly right.
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message: and t/p watchers: I have read through the edit history, past redirects/mergers and the talk page (+archive) of this article. The current (August 2019) version is in a poor state, is tagged since 2012, hardly cites any sources in the lead (nor the main for what the lead summarizes), and the article does not reflect the scholarly sources (1 2 3 4 5 6 etc). The lead implies and alleges that all religious texts are sacred texts/scriptures, without a source, something challenged by an early edit. It does not properly discuss the role of non-scripture "oral tradition", non-sacred or semi-sacred religious texts in the major world religions. The long OR-ish list is not consistent with our WP:WWIN and verifiability guidelines, and it encourages new editors to add whatever they want to to the unhelpful list. I will begin the cleanup and update over the next few weeks and months. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.  you too, given your significant contributions across various religion-related articles, if you have time. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 02:28, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: split it up in an article proper, and a list-page. See WP:LISTS. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:03, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Will do. Thanks, Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 11:57, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review and update 

message: The Seven Day Adventist the books, pamphlet, and Major Text, I see it as like the Jehovah Witness Watchtower rather than an extra scripture such as LDS Standard Works or Divine Principle. What your view? Apha9 (talk) 15:38, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seven Day Adventist Additional scriptures or Liturgical books 

message: The List of religious texts been moved to it own page. It should have been discussed and put to a vote before just moving to a new page should be implemented. Doremon764 (talk) 03:53, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Religious Text 

message: I don't think the statement in the opening paragraph that religious texts differ from literature is sound. Religious texts are often, if not usually, works of art just like any other literature. Almost all literature, unless its postmodern or purely rationalist/historiographical has a specific end goal—saying that religious texts are only spiritual admonition and don't contain elements of artistry, craft, narrative style, characterization, etc. doesn't make sense to me. The reverence of these texts by their communities, and the historical validity assumed in this, is not inherently invalidated because they have literary quality.
There are terms like "biblical literature", "vedic literature", etc. There are whole fields of literary approaches to the Bible (i.e., Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative and The Art of Biblical Poetry) and I'm sure the same applies to most other religious texts. 
Any sort of objections for me removing or amending this statement?  Gravada (talk) 01:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious Texts Can be Literature—Remove the Statement that Says it "Differs" 

message: @Mahbubslt
That citation needed tag has remained unresolved for years. Wikipedia:Verifiability, all information here needs to be verified.
If there is no source for that claim, it has to go.CycoMa1 (talk) 04:20, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed tag unresolved  

message: has been reordering the section to list Islam first. The section does not appear to be in any apparent order. How should the scriptures be sorted? Alphabetically? By date of first recording? Should the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) be grouped together? —C.Fred (talk) 12:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This order was first changed by an anonymous editor due to bias. So I changed the order. Mahbubslt (talk) 12:26, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Mahbubslt So what is the order they are in currently? I don't see an obvious order; they should be sorted into alphabetical or chronological order. —C.Fred (talk) 12:43, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

text: @FyzixFighter Good observation! It looks like the list was recently (16 April) readded by . —C.Fred (talk) 13:15, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of the texts in the Main scriptures of religions sections