God, in the Quran, mentions that the basic aspects of Islamic law are evident in the earliest scriptures, including that of Moses.
Chapter 53 of the Quran, sura An-Najm, mentions some more subject matters of the earlier scriptures of Abraham and Moses.
The Kalki Purana combines elements of earlier scripture to describe Kalki.
Rupert Gethin suggests that the whole of Buddhist history may be regarded as a working out of the implications of the early scriptures.
In Buddhism, a shastra is often a commentary written at a later date to explain an earlier scripture or sutra.
The earliest Christian scriptures place Jesus' resurrection at the center of religious faith.
The book also contained four appendices that listed works that at the time he considered canonical, stretching from earliest scriptures to Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
The early scriptures also reject monism (ekatta) and pluralism (nānatta) as speculative views.
The teachings of Quran are presented as the direct revelation and words of Allah, and earlier scriptures are considered to have been corrupted over time.
Although the New Testament is largely silent on the issue, some point to Jesus' repetition of the earlier scriptures, noting that a man and a wife "shall become one flesh".
