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Spring A Year 9 : Sacred Texts Siddhartha Gautma was a Hindu prince, There are many sacred texts within Key Terms who lived 600 years before , he Christianity Hinduism: Cannon: Religious cannon refers to a ‘catalogue of sacred gained enlightenment and became known - There are four , each veda scripture’ that is broadly accepted within a particular for Christians sacred text is known as The as the Buddha. His teachings are recorded was said to be created by one of example, in Islam the Qur’an, the hadith and the Sunnah make through a series of documents known as , the bible contains two the heads of up the Islamic Cannon. the Tipitaka (The Three Baskets of - The books are The Tipitaka (The Three Baskets of Buddhism): a major part Testaments, the Old and New, the event Buddhism) they are written in and known as the of the Buddhist cannon therefore make up the Pali Cannon. that separates the Old from the New - The most popular of all the The Vedas: Four key important holy hooks within the Hindu

Testament is the birth of Jesus. Hindu sacred texts is the faith. Bhagavad Gita : the most famous and popular sacred text The bible contains records of the life of Judaism among . The founder of Sikhism was a holy man called . The Jesus, these records are called gospels. Guru Granth : The Sikh holy book believed to be a living The Tenakh is the Jewish holy book, it is divided into three Sikh holy book is called the and is considered The four gospels included in the Bible are guru. sections : The : The Torah is the most important part of the to be a living guru, so is treated with great respect. Acts of Tenakkh: a collection of sacred texts that inform the Jewish Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Scriptures. It contains books called, Genesis , Exodus, Leviticus, respect shown to the Guru Granth Sahib include It being faith. Numbers and Deuteronomy. The Nevi’im which outlines Jewish enthroned under a canopy and reposes on cushions/ wave a The Bible: The sacred book of Christianity, containing the Old history and The Ketuvim which contains the book of Psalms. chauri above it /it has its own separate bedroom and should be and New Testament. Another collection ( 38 volumes) of teaching about how to live is kept away from non vegetarian food. Qur’an: The Holy book revealed to The ( called the Talmud. It contains the teaching of the rabbis. It is the only holy book that contains the writings from all the PBUH) by the angel Jibril; ’s final to humankind. major world . Writings from Muslims and Hindus can be True and Truth: to say an event is true suggests that it is found throughout, along with references to Judaism, Buddhism factually accurate whereas to say an event contains truth, and Christianity. suggests that it holds some spiritual truth. Authorship: asking the question, who wrote certain sacred Islam texts? The Qur’an is the Muslim Holy Book. Muslims believe that the words of the Qur’an are the words of Allah. They Interpretations: a way of viewing sacred texts, is the text were given to The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by the Angel Jibril. The word Qur’an means recitation and viewed through a literal or liberal lens? Muslims believe that The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) recited what the Angel Jibril taught him. For Muslims, the hadith is the other important collection of teachings. The books of the Hadith contain the collected sayings of The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They are still used today to advise Muslims on how to act. Big Ideas: God’s of Humanity: The Nature of God The Big Narratives