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How common is the expression "Qur'an of X" instead of Bible?
by comprev 3y ago
How common is the expression "Qur'an of X" instead of Bible?
- burnished 3y agoWhat? You appear to be saying nonsense.
- tyingq 3y agoThe "Torah of X" is fairly common.
- einpoklum 3y agoBut in Hebrew, "The Torah" doesn't mean a certain book anyway. There are "The five one-part-of-five's of Torah". The Torah is like the teachings, or the postulates, or the theory. So there's Jehova's Torah, or Torat Hashem; but there's also your mother's torah: "Remember, my son, your father's Mussar (= mores), and do not abandon your mother's Torah (= teachings)".
- tyingq 3y agoSure, though the Latin and Greek words that Bible comes from don't mean any particular book either.
- detrites 3y agoI don't know. This is an English-speaking site. From the Cambridge Dictionary definition of the English word "bible": > a book, magazine, etc. that gives important advice and information about a particular subject: Vogue magazine quickly became the bible of fashionable women.
- doublepg23 3y ago“The Mecca of X” is common enough. I’ve said “The Mecca of Nerds” to refer to Microcenter on a few occasions.