Meaning & use

sacred text

noun·Academic

A written work regarded by a religion as holy, authoritative, or divinely inspired.

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The Quran, the Torah, and the Bible are sacred texts central to their respective faiths.

Scholars compared how different sacred texts describe the origin of the world.

A note on using this word

Sacred text is a general term that can refer to the scripture of any religion, not one tradition alone.

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