Religious texts, also known as Sacred Scripture, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are divinely or supernaturally inspired.
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Religious texts, also known as Sacred Scripture, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are divinely or supernaturally inspired.
The Rigveda of Hinduism is proposed to have been composed between 1700–1100 BC making it possibly the world's oldest religious text still in use. The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are believed to have been transmitted orally for centuries before they found written form, and although widely differing dates for Gathic Avestan (the language of the oldest texts) have been proposed, scholarly consensus floats at around 1000 BCE.
The first scripture printed for wide distribution to the masses was The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, and is the earliest recorded example of a dated printed text, bearing the Chinese calendar date for 11 May 868 CE.
Ásatrú
- The Poetic Edda, especially including the Hávamál
- The Younger Edda
Ayyavazhi
- The Akilattirattu Ammanai
- The Arul Nool
Bahá'í Faith
- The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
- Kitáb-i-Íqán
- and many other writings including ones from other faiths
Bön
- Bon Kangyur and Tengyur
Buddhism

- Theravada Buddhism
- The Tipitaka aka Pali Canon
- East Asian Mahayana
- The Chinese Buddhist Tripitaka, including
- Diamond Sutra
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Infinite Life Sutra
- Amitabha Sutra
- Contemplation Sutra
- other Pure Land Sutras
- Tiantai, Tendai, and Nichiren
- Lotus Sutra
- Shingon
- Mahavairocana Sutra
- Vajrasekhara Sutra
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Tibetan Kangyur and Tengyur
Christianity

- The Books of the Bible
- Some forms of Christianity:
- The Apocrypha
- Latter Day Saint denominations (see also Standard Works):
- The Book of Mormon
- The Pearl of Great Price
- The Doctrine and Covenants
- Cerdonianism and Marcionism
- Gospel of Marcion
- the Apostolicon (10 Letters of Paul)
- Paulicianism
- Gospel of Luke
- Pauline epistles
- Gnosticism
- Nag Hammadi library
Confucianism
- The Five Classics
- The Four Books
Discordianism
- The Principia Discordia
- The Apocrypha Discordia
Druze
- Rasa'il al-hikmah (Epistles of Wisdom)























