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What Other Writing Covers

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Other writing records a religious text that falls outside the atlas's narrower Scripture and Passage entries, a commentary, a devotional treatise, a saint's life, a mystical or philosophical work written from within a tradition but never received by that tradition as revealed or canonical text in its own right. The type exists because a great deal of what shapes a tradition's religious life was written by a known human author working to explain, extend or reflect on a tradition's core texts rather than to add to them.

An entry records a work's author where one is known, its language and the era it was written in, and its literary form, a commentary structured verse by verse, a devotional treatise organized by theme, a narrative life of a holy figure, since the form a religious writer chose shapes how the work was meant to be read and used as much as its content does.

Some works recorded here later gained a canonical or near canonical standing within their own tradition despite never having been received as scripture, and the entry records that elevated standing as a fact about the work's later reception rather than reclassifying the work itself, since how a text was first written and how it later came to be read are two separate, both worth recording, facts about it.

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Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source
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