1.   He was drawn in by the religious talk, the hours studying scripture, the tight community.

2.   Shavuot is a holiday that commemorates Moses giving the law to the Israelites, on which observant Jews spend much of the night studying scripture.

3.   The faithful also study scripture called the Bhagavad-gita, other Sanskrit texts and the writings of their founder.

4.   The man, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he had studied scripture while in divinity school and was not as certain about its conclusions.

5.   Velamuri loved company and good conversation, but also studied Hindu scriptures, attended temple and meditated at home.

6.   He studied scripture under the leading Jewish scholars and teachers of the age.