Book Religion
January 27th, 2011 Posted 8:43 am
Was Judaism the first ‘holy book’ based religion?
What is your definition of a ‘holy book’ based religion? Do compare it to older religions that existed in a time before written language was even in its infancy? You know, these older religions had dogma, traditions and customs just like the ‘holy book’ based religions, but these older religions had no written textual basis, it was all passed on orally like the illiterate Greek poets of legend.
Judaism isn’t a book.
(The writings of Genesis predate Hinduism by at least 800 years. The Harappan culture did nothing more than make scratches on the sides of pottery. The development of fully functional narrative would have taken some centuries after 2600 BC, when writing first appears in India.)
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