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originally posted by: ilstar
originally posted by: Mazzini
a reply to: ilstar
I suggest, if you REALLY want to learn the Bible, the only Bible that will tell you all this is the 1966 Jerusalem Bible. You will have to pay for it, about 70 dollars and it's rare but I have two because I had a beat up one and I wanted a mint condition one, and I bought it.
The Oxford annotated bible is the next best.
Here is something you may find baffling about your Bible-of-choice:
The text of the Old Testament is treated with great freedom. Frequently the traditional Masoretic text is departed from, in favor of readings from the ancient versions, and many conjectural emendations are also adopted rather arbitrarily. One academic reviewer (Gleason Archer) has described the Jerusalem Bible's emendations of the Hebrew text as "undisciplined and capricious," and concludes that "the Hebrew text is completely at the mercy of these translators, who can alter it to mean whatever they choose it to mean, without following the scientific procedures worked out by competent textual critics." (bible-researcher)
originally posted by: ElementalFreeze
It is good news that Yahweh is just the god of the Jews. He is a threatening demanding murdering psychopath who terrorized Israel for most of the Bible with the exception of a few good generations Yahweh is always demanding someone's death. Human sacrifice on a mass scale is disguised as some kind of holy war because Yahweh ordered it.
Any god that instructs his people to do genocide is an evil god.
originally posted by: ElementalFreeze
originally posted by: ilstar
originally posted by: Mazzini
a reply to: ilstar
I suggest, if you REALLY want to learn the Bible, the only Bible that will tell you all this is the 1966 Jerusalem Bible. You will have to pay for it, about 70 dollars and it's rare but I have two because I had a beat up one and I wanted a mint condition one, and I bought it.
The Oxford annotated bible is the next best.
Here is something you may find baffling about your Bible-of-choice:
The text of the Old Testament is treated with great freedom. Frequently the traditional Masoretic text is departed from, in favor of readings from the ancient versions, and many conjectural emendations are also adopted rather arbitrarily. One academic reviewer (Gleason Archer) has described the Jerusalem Bible's emendations of the Hebrew text as "undisciplined and capricious," and concludes that "the Hebrew text is completely at the mercy of these translators, who can alter it to mean whatever they choose it to mean, without following the scientific procedures worked out by competent textual critics." (bible-researcher)
It's not an accomplishment to find a negative review of a bible on the internet. That could be done with any and every version.
Departing from the Masoretic texts is what makes a bible good. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek texts are the best.
You trying to discredit a bible that is probably the best, most thorough and accurate as well as honest bibles ever created is despicable and a tactic of deceit. I could find an article right now that says mother Theresa worshipped Satan but that doesn't make it so.
By Padawan:
Lilstar I am waiting for you to reply. You wanted to discuss the matter before. What happened, you realized that you don't have the actual knowledge?
By coomba98. (Who Padawan calls Summers Eve)
Ok I say this again, im on your side with this argument but man, 1956, with what around four upgrades since.
The Hebrew Torah Deuteronomy was written in 1406 B.C and say in its most true translation:
ח.בְּהַנְחֵל עֶלְיוֹן גּוֹיִם בְּהַפְרִידוֹ בְּנֵי אָדָם יַצֵּב גְּבֻלֹת עַמִּים לְמִסְפַּר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
meaning:
'When the Most High gave nations their lot, when He separated the sons of man, He set up the boundaries of peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.'
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Im with you overall with your argument, but not on this digger. I go with the oldest and in my opinion most correct in this case.
Coomba4000 - GODLIKE!
First, academic scholars have agendas and personal bias too. I have read every page of the Jerusalem bible and it is truly a masterpiece. I would be suspicious of any negative reviews as they are probably negative because the Jerusalem bible is too revealing, too honest and absolutely shattered the notion of Yahweh as Most High with its CORRECT translation of Deuteronomy 32. That's if you can get one.
By Padawan:
Lilstar I am waiting for you to reply. You wanted to discuss the matter before. What happened, you realized that you don't have the actual knowledge?