Do the Jewish or Muslim faiths also have an order of readings based on a calendar?
Regarding a prescribed order of readings for Jews: there is no one prescribed order. The length of a “reading cycle” has varied over time: as the article on the “Triennial Cycle” in the Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd edition) notes, “In traditional synagogues, the Pentateuch is read in one year. Reform Judaism (and some Conservative synagogues) has, however, reverted to the ancient Palestinian custom of a triennial cycle” (vol. 20, p. 143). Another article in the Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition, (“Torah, Reading Of”) goes into a bit more detail about how the Torah is read today and includes a number of tables of readings. There is also an article on the “Triennial Cycle” in the first edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica; it’s available for free online (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=327&letter=T&search=triennial). Tables of readings for the Jewish faith can be found online — for example, http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/readingp.htm has a table for the annual reading of
