First Sentence

"This is a book on the Books: the books of the "peoples of the Book," that is, the Old Testament (Torah) of the Jewish people, the Old and New Testaments (Bible) of the Christians peoples, and the Koran of the Muslim peoples; the last consisting, on its own account, of all the three at once but superseding the first two by way of sublation, whereas the first, historically and ideationally, is the main source of the two later derivatives."