Relationship of Religions of Book

In today's world there are several significant Religions of the Book. It is very important to realize that these are not independent systems but exist in an organic historical relationship that can be expressed as a tree.  While the analysis in the table is not in any way exhaustive it still gives the basic idea how setting the holy Books in chronological perspective reveals the relationships between them.

Period	Religion	Holy Book	Holy Book
Bronze Age	Judaism	Tanakh	Talmud
Classical Roman period	Christianity	Jewish holy books Tanach and Apocrypha	New Testament
Byzantine period	Islam	Jewish and Christian holy Books (Old and New Testament)	Koran
19th century	Mormons	Jewish and Christian holy books (Old and New Testament)	Book of Mormon

The same idea can be visualized by drawing a tree where the branches cannot really be understood without the preceding stages. The topmost Book is the defining one that sets the religion apart from the others in the tree.