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单词 religion of the book
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religion of the book
P6. religion of the book: a religion entailing adherence to a book of divine revelation; spec. Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Cf. People of the Book n. at people n. Phrases 1b.
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1830 Q. Rev. Oct. 560 Mahommedanism has been received by negro nations with more confidence, because it is the religion of the Book,—a written, and, as they believe, an attested religion, of the truth of which the koran is the record and the proof.
1888 B. Manly Bible Doctr. of Inspiration, explained & Vindicated i. i. 13 Christianity is the Religion of the Book.
1941 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 58 23 Mohammed considers himself not the founder of a new religion but rather a protagonist of the age-old religion of the Book.
1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 85 When Islam eventually became a religion of the book, other ‘people of the book’, Christians and Jews, were specifically excluded from the operations of the holy war.
1992 M. E. Marty & R. S. Appleby Glory & Power i. 21 It is relatively easy to locate the fundamentalist groundings in the three faiths called the Religions of the Book.
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