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Definition of Religious text
1. Noun. Writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity.
Generic synonyms: Piece Of Writing, Writing, Written Material
Specialized synonyms: Sacred Scripture, Scripture, Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word, Word Of God, Paralipomenon, Testament, Evangel, Gospel, Gospels, Synoptic Gospels, Synoptics, Prayer, Service Book, Apocrypha, Sapiential Book, Wisdom Book, Wisdom Literature, Pseudepigrapha, Talmudic Literature, Veda, Vedic Literature, Mantra, Psalm
Specialized synonyms: Adi Granth, Granth, Granth Sahib, Avesta, Zend-avesta, Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavadgita, Gita, Mahabharata, Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum, Laws, Pentateuch, Torah, Torah, Hebrew Scripture, Tanach, Tanakh, Nebiim, Prophets, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings, Book Of Mormon, Al-qur'an, Book, Koran, Quran, Gemara, Mishna, Mishnah, Upanishad, Psalm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Text
Literary usage of Religious text
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the by Carl Bezold, Leonard William King, Wilfred G. Lambert, Alan Ralph Millard (1896)
"Part of a religious text with an interlinear Assyrian version. ... Fragment of
a religious text. [Sm. 605] Right-hand corner, -f^in. by £iu. ; 5 ± traces of ..."
2. The National Sunday School Teacher by Chicago Sunday School Union (1875)
"It looks upon the session of the Sunday-school is "a simple scene of study and
innocent gratification, with religious text books and decent regard for ..."
3. Sermons of Religion and Life: With Biographical Sketch by Henry Martyn Simmons by Henry Doty Maxson, Henry Martyn Simmons, James Vila Blake (1893)
"The Unitarian policy in dealing with the Bible, looking at it not as a religious
history but as a religious text-book, is then the policy of eclecticism, ..."
4. Sermons of Religion and Life: With Biographical Sketch by Henry Martyn Simmons by Henry Doty Maxson, Henry Martyn Simmons, James Vila Blake (1893)
"The Unitarian policy in dealing with the Bible, looking at it not as a religious
history but as a religious text-book, is then the policy of eclecticism, ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1904)
"But someone will say: Why not take the Bible as it is and teach that as a religious
text ? This proposition gives us every difficulty at once. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"But the most interesting Irish religious text is the Vision of Adamnan (preserved
in LU.), which'Stokes assigns to the nth century. ..."
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