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religious text

vr.tr.religious-text · INF.MED

Let an agent describe religious texts and their roles within traditions with attribution, explain how they are transmitted and studied, support respectful handling and study, and separate scholarly and devotional perspectives.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent describe religious texts and their roles within traditions with attribution, explain how they are transmitted and studied, support respectful handling and study, and separate scholarly and devotional perspectives.

A text regarded as sacred, authoritative or foundational by a religious tradition, such as scriptures, commentaries and liturgical texts, including Torah scrolls, Buddhist sutras and their commentaries such as the atthakatha and tika, stone classics, and texts known only from references as lost religious texts; religious texts are transmitted by copying, printing and recitation and are studied within traditions and by scholars.

What it is for: Sacred and authoritative writing in religions.

It can be describe a religious text and its role with attribution; explain transmission and canons; support respectful handling and study; present scholarly and devotional views separately.

Distinguishing features

Sacred status

Canonical or commentarial

Ritual and study use

Tradition-defined

What it looks like

Scrolls, codices, printed books, inscriptions and digital texts.

How it is recognised

Regarded as sacred or authoritative by a tradition

Transmitted with care

A theological treatise may be authoritative without being scripture

Related models

is a kind of - category

document

is a kind of - category

literary work

is related to - the traditions

religion

is related to - transmission

manuscript

In practice

Families and kinds

scriptures and canons

commentaries and sub-commentaries

liturgical texts

inscribed texts such as stone classics

lost and fragmentary religious texts

Standards and regulation

Rules of traditions on handling and copying

Heritage protection for manuscripts

Copyright on translations and editions

Failure modes and hazards

Disrespectful handling or presentation

Presenting one interpretation as the only one

Confusing scholarly dating with devotional belief

Also called

Stone classicsTorah scrollaṭṭhakathāTikaBuddhist textlost religious textTaoist literaturechapter of the MishnamishnaSeder of the Mishnabook of virtueJehovah's Witnesses publicationsShintenHindu textBook of works in IslamExultet rollBiblical apocryphaVolume of Sacred LawsynaxarionSefer TorahGospel harmonyCommonitorybenedictionsacred text of Manichaeismnon-canonical book referenced in the BibleZoroastrian textsAs a Peace-Loving Global Citizenchurch orderbiblical canonparable of Jesusdaily devotionalfunerary textgoshoJohn 15:13Sikh scripturesTalmudical tractateGenesis 2:18Genesis 3:11Haftarahpublication of the Five Monasteries

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Describe What the text is.

Attribution.

Role

Role in its tradition.

Role

Role.

  1. What is this religious text, and what role and status does its tradition give it, in the tradition own terms? provenance
  2. Which parts or commentaries accompany it? provenance

Perspectives

Devotional and scholarly.

Perspectives

Perspectives.

  1. How do devotional and scholarly accounts of this text origin and dating differ, and are both attributed? boundary
  2. Which editions and translations are used? provenance
Transmit Transmission.

Copying and canons.

Canon

Canons.

Canon

Canons.

  1. How was the canon of this tradition formed, according to its own accounts and to historians? provenance
  2. Which texts are considered lost? provenance

Copying

Scribes and printing.

Copying

Copying.

  1. How are texts such as Torah scrolls or sutras copied, printed or inscribed, and which rules govern this? provenance
  2. How are variants handled? provenance
Handle Respectful handling.

Etiquette.

Etiquette

Handling rules.

Etiquette

Etiquette.

  1. How does this tradition ask that its texts be handled, stored and disposed of? provenance
  2. Which practices apply to non-adherents? provenance

Quote

Quoting texts.

Quote

Quoting.

  1. How should passages be quoted and cited, and which translation conventions apply? action
  2. Is the quotation in context? boundary
Study Studying texts.

Learning.

Access

Finding texts.

Access

Access.

  1. Where can this text be read in the original and in translation, including digital editions? provenance
  2. Which manuscripts are notable? provenance

Teach

Teaching about texts.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can religious texts be taught in a comparative, respectful way? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each major scripture be a separate entry?
  • How should digital editions be linked?
  • How should handling rules be attributed?
Draft as JSON