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Are the Vedas Older Than the Bible? A Chronology of the World's Sacred Texts
The question 'which is older, the Vedas or the Bible?' turns out to be the wrong question. The right question is: older in what sense? Oral composition, written fixation, and final redaction give three different answers, and the gap between them can span a millennium. Here is the evidence, tradition by tradition.