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Ink that outlived every empire that tried to burn it.
means A sacred text or body of writings held by a religion to be authoritative, holy, or divinely inspired.
from From Latin scriptura, "a writing," from scribere, "to write" — the same root that gives us scribe, script, and describe. Scribere itself traces back to a sense of scratching or incising marks onto a surface, the ancient act of cutting words into stone, wax, or clay. By the time the word reached English through Old French, it had narrowed to mean the writings, the ones considered holy above all others.
- oldest copies
- Dead Sea Scrolls survived 2,000 years in desert caves
- translation
- The Bible exists in over 700 languages
- word origin
- Latin scriptura simply means a thing written
- memory feat
- Some recite the entire Quran from memory, word-perfect
- smuggled
- Tyndale was strangled and burned for an English version
king james bible — english translation commissioned by king james i in 1611, remains one of the most influential texts in english literature
vedas — sanskrit texts composed in india between 1500-500 bce, foundational to hinduism with four main texts: rigveda, yajurveda, samaveda, atharvaveda
quran — islamic scripture revealed to prophet muhammad in the 7th century, memorized verbatim by millions of hafiz worldwide
dead sea scrolls — ancient hebrew biblical manuscripts discovered in qumran, palestine in 1947, dating to 200 bce - 70 ce