Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — The Seven Bible. [ARTICLE]

The Seven Bible.

The seven bibles of the world are the Koran of Mahometans, the Tri Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zend Avesta, and the Scriptures of the Christians. The Koran is the most recent of the five, dating from about the seventh century after Christ. It is composed ol quotations from both the Old and New Testaments and from the Talmud. The Tri Pitikes contain sublime morals and pure aspirations. Their author lived and died in the sixth century before Christ. The sacred writings of the Chinese are called the Five Kings, the word “kings” meaning web of cloth. From this it is presumed that they were written on five rolls of cloth. They contain wise sayings from the sages on the duties of life, but they cannot be traced further back than the eleventh century before our era. The Vedas are the most ancient books in tho language of the Hindoos, but they do not, according to the commentators, antedate the twelfth century B. C. The Zend Avesta of the Persians, next to our Bible, is reckoned among scholars as being the greatest and most learned. It was first written in the Zend language and “Avesta” signifies “the living word.” Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains, lived and worked in the twelfth century B. C. Moses lived and wrote the Pentateuch 1,500 years B. C.; therefore, that portion of our Bible is at least 300 years older than the most ancient of other sacred writings. The Eddas, a semi-sacred work of the Scandinavians, was first given to the world in the fourteenth century.—Hearth and Hall.