Torah, Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon?

The Hebrew scriptures came first, so Torah or Old Testament for Judaism and Christianity. Those were completed some 400 years before Jesus was born.

Christians also have the New Testament writings (mainly completed by AD 70).

The Qur'an was verbally transmitted after Muhammed died (AD 632) and not committed to writing until till many years later, so we're talking more than 600 years after Christ's death.

Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon did not appear on the scene until the early 1800s!

To specifically answer your question, Judaism came first out of all those. The Torah is also included, but likely with different translation, in the Old Testament of the Bible as the first five books which Christians call the Pentateuch. Islam came third out of those and recognizes Jesus as a prophet. The Book of Mormon was written many years later and is quite different.

If you're being serious about your question then I wonder why you're specifically focusing on the Abrahamic god. It's almost like you want to learn about ogres so you watch all the Shrek movies ignoring the older, richer and more numerous pieces of literature that include ogres. I trust you realize watching the Shrek movies won't really help you understand ogres beyond the Shrek.

As a fellow agnostic atheist, I think there are plenty of more illustrative and useful conceptualizations of gods. Nanabozho and Atira, for example are far more interesting and worthy of respect than the Abrahamic god. That said, there is a great deal of useful cultural history in the Torah/Pentateuch since that was effectively the diary of the early civilization builders.

If you're being serious, you should read a book called "The Story of B" by Daniel Quinn which is the second book in a trilogy that began with "Ishmael" which is another good read. ("Ishmael" focuses more on culture, while "B" focuses more on spirituality/religion) Start with "Ishmael" for an introduction to his methodology. "B" is much meatier.

While you're reading those books you've mentioned keep these things in mind:

The problem with interpreting the Bible metaphorically:

http://noonespecial.ca/2010/11/ya-the-problem-with...

Adam and Eve and the Agricultural Revolution:

http://noonespecial.ca/adam-and-eve/

Genesis creation accounts and Christians' worldview:

http://noonespecial.ca/2010/06/ya-how-do-you-think...

The Bible and sexual morality (see my answer)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgI8Z...

There IS a pattern and it's important for us to understand.

Is religion good?

http://noonespecial.ca/2010/11/is-religion-good/

Feel free to contact me for some more resources to learn about the IDEA of god.

I cannot tell you much (if anything) about the Torah and Koran but as far as the Bible and the Book of Mormon I can tell you a decent amount about them. One is that they go together. You cannot accept the Book of Mormon as scripture and not also accept the Bible as scripture as well, if you try to deny the Bible as scripture then you will also have to deny the Book of Mormon as well.

As far as chronological events with in them, most of the Book of Mormon deals with events from about the end of the Old Testament, around the prophet Jeremiah's time, (around 600 BC) until about 400 years after Christ came, (specifically about 421 AD). There is also a brief tale of a people (known as the Jaradites) that starts about the time that the Tower of Babel was being built (about 2,500 BC), and ends about about 500 BC.

So Chronologically for the Bible and Book of Mormon you would want to start with the Old Testament and then listen to the Book of Mormon (up to about 3 Nephi) then you would want to listen to the New Testament, and then finish listening to the Book of Mormon. (The book called Ether is the one that has the tale of the Jaradites and it is the second to the last in book order. However even though it takes place before the rest of the Book of Mormon, it was abridged by the last person to write in the Book of Mormon and contains many comments by him as well.)

Additionally if you are interested in listening to all of the scriptures of the various faiths then you would want to look into the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price.

As far as Chronological order is concerned, the Doctrine and Covenants, contains revelations given to Joseph Smith as well as some of his successors and is not a translation of ancient scripture, and so it would fall the very last in order. The Pearl of Great Price contains some Books that fit into the Old Testaments Chronology, the New Testament's Chronology and the Doctrine and Covenants Chronology. If you are interested I could tell you which fits where.

If you would like to see a copy of our scriptures online then you can follow this link

http://lds.org/scriptures/?lang=eng

If you would like to get a free mp3 version of the King James version of the Bible (Old and New Testament) and all of our other scriptures, then you can click on the links below and it will start downloading automatically.

Old Testament

http://broadcast.lds.org/scriptures/OldTestament/0...

New Testament

http://broadcast.lds.org/scriptures/NewTestament/0...

Book of Mormon

http://broadcast.lds.org/scriptures/BookOfMormon/0...

Doctrine and Covenants

http://broadcast.lds.org/scriptures/DoctrineAndCov...

Pearl of Great Price

http://broadcast.lds.org/scriptures/PearlOfGreatPr...

I hope this helps you. And if you have any other question please feel free to email me.

Torah/Old Testament

New Testament (isnt in chronological order though)

Book of Mormon is same period of time as Bible, just diff location of the world

Koran would probably be last

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the Book of Mormon time period is not last

It follows a time line similar to that of the Bible, before and after the time of Christ

It just follows people in the Americas instead of the Middle East/Europe

I think its wondering that you are willing to read/listen to the different religious books of different teachings.

The 1st three(Torah, BIble and Koran) were all written around the same time. The Book of Mormon was written in the 1900s so that would be last. I would start with the Bible and then Torah, Koran, and finally Mormon.

It would be good not to look at these books as a novel but as a group of stories and life lessons that might be easy to understand on the surface, but are very deep thinking topics which transend time, culture, and peoples. For each book you will need to understand the culture they were written for, and the history of the time when they were written to.

Please remember that even after each book was written and published people have given their lives to try and understand the message of those words. These books, their followers and the nations which support them are very rich in culture and history. Please take them seriously.

Yes, you do have the correct chronological order. Remember that "the bible" is actually the Hebrew Testament (Torah, etc.) first and then followed by the Christian Testament. So if you read the bible you get the first two in order anyway. Do "Old Testament" first, then "New Testament".

Blessings on your Journey!

Torah: first 5 books of the Old Testament

Bible: includes the Torah

Book of Mormon (Another Testament of Christ) starts 600 years before the birth of Christ / record of the people that left Jerusalem and came to the Americas. They brought with them scriptures on brass plates that included the Torah.

Koran: no clue - I'm not Muslim

Seems logical to me to listen to them in the order of oldest book to latest book. That way you can discern if later books copied concepts from older books. In other words, you'd be better able to spot the copy cat from the original.

So the order would be: Bible (Which includes the Torah*), Quran, Book of Mormon.

*The Torah is essentially the first five books of the Bible.

answer: No

Torah, Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon

The Christian Bible contains the five books of Moses in their OT which is the Torah in Judaism.

There are differences between the OT and the Jewish Tanakh/Torah

Torah all the way, the rest are cheap knock off's and you know it.