Exam 1: Scripture Among the Worlds Religions

How many stages has the study of scripture passed through in the last 150 years?

In the Western "religions of the book," scriptures regulate much of life.

Whose book was first published under the title From Primitives to Zen?

Scripture can only be used cognitively.

What does the practice of bibliomancy tell us about the importance of scriptures for believers? Do all religions have this practice? If not,why do you think that they lack it?

In what ways can scriptures be used noncognitively?

World religions typically venerate their scriptures.

Scripture is barred from public worship.

Most scriptures originated in oral tradition.

The Talmud is the Hebrew Bible.

Genres are also known as

Dao means ______.

The canon is ________ in the three Abrahamic monotheisms.

What term do Coburn and Folkert reject?

_______ in Judaism and Christianity means "The Book."

The Upanishads include philosophy about

Scriptures typically reflect only the patriarchal and ______ perspectives of their traditions.

The present work (Anthology of World Scriptures)is representative of which stage of scripture study?

______ use of scripture means doing something with it.

The effort to collect,edit,and publish the literature of world religions is an academic enterprise from the _________ part of the world.