The word " scriptures " refers to the original scriptures that were given to certain prophets.

The original usage of the term distinguished these scriptures both from those considered non-canonical and from those considered protocanonical.

According to S. N. Goenka, a teacher of Vipassana meditation, the original meaning of dhamma is " dharayati iti dharmaH ", or " one that contains, supports or upholds " and dharma in the Buddhist scriptures has a variety of meanings, including " phenomenon " and " nature " or " characteristic ".

Another source of Mani's scriptures was original Aramaic writings relating to the book of Enoch literature ( see the Book of Enoch and the Second Book of Enoch ), as well as an otherwise unknown section of the book of Enoch called the " Book of Giants ".

In the Aramaic book of Enoch, in the Qumran writings in general, and in the original Syriac section of Manichaean scriptures quoted by Theodore bar Konai, he is called " malka raba de-ikara " ( the great king of glory ).

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

There are two portions of Manichaean scriptures that are probably the closest thing to the original Manichaean writings in their original languages that will ever be available.

Islam believes the present Christian and Jewish scriptures have been corrupted over time and are no longer the original divine revelations as given to Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.

He set off for Dahila kingdom ( 天竺国, an appellation for India in ancient China ) to retrieve original Buddhist scriptures for China.

Since the original writing of the scriptures, huge volumes of copies have been made of the originals, which are no longer extant, and copies have been made of those copies, resulting in several text types.

Since Early Christianity, demonology has developed from a simple acceptance of demons to a complex study that has grown from the original ideas taken from Jewish demonology and Christian scriptures.

Theravada Buddhism uses Pali as its main liturgical language, and prefers its scriptures to be studied in the original Pali.

The scriptures of the Kangyur, the original teachings of the Buddha translated into Tibetan are also part of the sanctum.

The organization claims not to be a part of the Latter Day Saint movement, although many of its original members were former Mormons, the House of Aaron basic beliefs have never included the Book of Mormon, nor any other LDS scriptures.

At that time Palembang was a centre of Buddhism where foreign scholars gathered, and Yijing stayed there for two years to translate original Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures into Chinese.

* Joseph Wheless ( 1868-1950 ): American lawyer who traced origins of the scriptures, examining original Hebrew and Greek meanings, and the translations into Latin and English.

The Renaissance yielded scholars the ability to read the scriptures in their original languages and this in part stimulated the Reformation, a theological movement that protested the outlawing of their faith at the Second Diet of Speyer.

From this document, the Megatron of this era took his name ( as did, presumably, the original Megatron ), and the scriptures foretold the events which completed the Beast Wars.

Although the original text is missing from the papyrus scriptures discovered, some translations ' fill in ' the gap, suggesting ; “ Jesus loved Mary Magdalene more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth .”

However, the word is not found anywhere else in the original scriptures of the Bible, nor, moreover, anywhere else in all of Classical Greek literature.

They considered this oral tradition to set forth the precise, original meanings of the words, revealed at the same time and by the same means as the original scriptures themselves.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

* Siddur Torah Or ( the Alter Rebbe's original edition )

While Christianity includes the five books of Moses ( the Pentateuch ) among their sacred texts, in its Old Testament, Islam believes that only the original Torah was sent by the One true God.

However, Muslims also believe that this original revelation was corrupted ( tahrif ) over time by Jewish scribes and hence do not revere the present " Jewish version " Torah as much.

Every Monday, Thursday and Shabbat in Orthodox synagogues ( and many Conservative ones as well ), a portion from the Torah is read aloud in the original Hebrew in front of the congregation.

Tubal-Cain ( not to be confused with Cain, brother of Abel ) is mentioned in the book of Genesis of the Old Testament ( the first book of the Torah ) as the original smith.

He is committed to intensive and original Torah study, and articulates a bold Jewish worldview that embraces modernity, reflecting the tradition of his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

He was lauded as an original thinker and prolific writer, from studies of the Torah, Talmud and mysticism to introductory pamphlets on Jewish beliefs and philosophy aimed at non-religious and newly religious Jews.

" Whilst there, he wrote hundreds of pages of original Torah discourses, subsequently published as " Reshimot, " and corresponded with his father on Torah matters, which were published in the 1970s in the book " Likuttei Levi Yitzchak — Letters ".

This is based on a belief that the Torah is unique among biblical texts in that it was given directly to mankind ( via Moses ) in exact letter-by-letter sequence and in the original Hebrew language.

This edition is based on a number of manuscripts ( different ones are used for the different books, according to their reliability ) and includes an original commentary on the Mishneh Torah.

Maimonides, in his Mishneh Torah, rules that " if all the sages In Israel would unanimously agree to appoint and ordain judges, then these new ordinants would possess the full authority of the original ordained judges " ( Hilchoth Sanhedrin 4: 11 ).

Since Hebrew is the original language of the Hebrew Bible ( known as the Torah and Tanakh ), it is therefore a language that has always been central to Judaism and valued by the Jewish people for over three thousand years and later by Christian scholars as well.

He devoted much time to the study of the Torah and Hebrew grammar, and was knowledgeable in the secular sciences, enriching the latter by his original contributions.

Gillman holds that the text of the Torah that we have today is not the original text that existed in the time of Moses, but rather has been edited together from an array of earlier sources.

Many Jewish laws are formulated in terms of specific Hebrew words employed in the Torah ; without the original Hebrew code, authenticity of the legal system would be damaged.

The mystical ideas contained in the Torah are also drawn from the original Hebrew.

Many traditionalist Karaites maintain that the origin of the Karaite Judaism was with the giving of the Torah to Moses, that Karaite Judaism is the form of Judaism practiced by the original Israelites under Moses.

It is added because its content and style are somewhat similar to that of the original tractate Avoth ( although it focuses on Torah study more than ethics ), and to allow for one chapter to be recited on each Shabbat of the Omer period, this chapter being seen well-suited to Shabbat Shavuot, when the giving of the Torah is celebrated.

A Torah database ( מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות ) is an electronic collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which especially in Israel are often called " The Traditional Jewish Bookshelf " ( ארון הספרים היהודי ); the texts are in their original languages ( Hebrew or Aramaic ).

Amateur biblical scholars often forget that when compared in context to the rest of the sentence ( in a Torah verse which indicates singular usage ), the Hebrew term " gods " is actually a Semitic elative meaning the one God YHWH ( see the original term in Hebrew, Elohim ); thus, Aaron's famous response to the unruly Israelites after he is forced to cast the Golden Calf could be seen as a bitterly sarcastic condemnation of their assumption of God's likeness, even after he consents to their demands.

He is committed to intensive and original Torah study and articulates a bold Jewish worldview that embraces elements of modernity within the framework of a Torah life, reflecting the tradition of his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik in line with Centrist Orthodoxy.