2007-03-20 08:10:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hinduism has the older texts (approx. 3,500
years old compared to Hebrew/Judiac texts at approx. 3,000 years old) but the religion with the oldest religious texts is neither of those:
The oldest religious texts are Egyptian (from approx. 4,600 to 5,100 years ago).
"The Pyramid Texts were a collection of Egyptian mortuary prayers, hymns, and spells intended to protect a dead king or queen and ensure life and sustenance in the hereafter. The texts, inscribed on the walls of the inner chambers of the pyramids [from c. 2686-c. 2160 BC]., are found at Saqqarah in several 5th- and 6th-dynasty pyramids, of which that of Unas, last king of the 5th dynasty, is the earliest
known. The texts constitute the oldest surviving body of gyptian religious and funerary writings available to modern scholars."
2007-03-20 08:14:34 · answer #1 · answered by KryptonOne 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
not even the first 2 answers
the 10 commandments written on stones
2007-03-20 08:14:07 · answer #2 · answered by Not Of This World 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oldest document DISCUSSING IT?
Herodotus' histories aren't a bad choice.
2007-03-20 08:23:13 · answer #3 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dead Sea Scrolls
2007-03-20 08:12:16 · answer #4 · answered by Maverick 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've read that some Vedic scripture may be as much as 5000 years old.
2007-03-20 08:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Egyptian tombs.
2007-03-20 08:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the old testament
2007-03-20 08:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by Royce W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋