Greenblood07

O.K so I thought that this would be interesting....

I know that this is a highly subjective topic but lets try...

So which text is the most influential text of history?

For me it goes like this :

Historically (uptill now!)

1- The Bible
2- The Qur'an
3- Greek Philosophers' texts (Republic/Politics etc)

Today (as we speak!)

1- The Qur'an
2- Greek Philosophers' texts (Republic/Politics etc)
3-The Bible

The future (ultimately what will happen in terms of influence!)

1-Greek Philosophers' texts (Republic/Politics etc)
2- The Qur'an
3- The Bible


I know there are many , many other texts ... So what you say?

pixi666

How could it be anything but the Pentateuch?

okamido

The Magna Carta

MinoanGoddess

It depends on what type of influence you are referring to. You may try to add a poll in your thread next time so you have statistics. To me it would be the Rosetta Stone:


This tablet contains 3 different languages all on the same stone:

1. Greek
2. Egyptian Hieroglyphics
3. Demotic Scripts

If the Rosetta stone was not found and decyphered we wouldn't know much about ancient Egyptian writing, religion, culture etc.

laketahoejwb

The Bible.

Copernicus' Commentariolus.

Edict of Milan.

US Constitution.

Homer Iliad and the Oddesy.

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.

MinoanGoddess

Very good choices/selections..I commend you sir!

Belloc

The Bible obviously has to be at the top.

tjadams

The Declaration of Independence
The US Constitution
The Magna Carta
Federalist Papers # 10 & 51
Monroe Doctrine
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Compromise of 1850
Summa Theologica
The Communist Manifesto

venny

The Bible is always at the top. People are very threaten to the truth in it.

bunyip

In the West,but hardly in the East..

In India,perhaps the Vedas or the Mahabharata,(especially the Gita)

In China perhaps the Tao Te Ching ,The Annals Of Confucius and writings of Mencius,or even "The Art Of War"