protoscripture
English
Etymology
proto- + scripture
Noun
protoscripture (countable and uncountable, plural protoscriptures)
- Something which is not yet scripture, but which is becoming or will become scripture
- 1993, William A. Graham, Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge University Press:
- If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...
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