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• The Holy Bible
• Anonymous
• English
• 18 October 2020
• 9780452010628

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Summary Á PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ Anonymous Anonymous ↠ 0 Read Download The Holy Bible For the modern reader and is based on the original King James Version published in 16 I ve already done a review of the New Testament so this one will focus on the first part of the book Looking at other reviews most of them seem to fall into a small number of categories First there are the people who are telling me that this is the word of God and the greatest book ever written Second there are the ones reacting to the first group and telling me that it s worthless Third probably the largest contingent we have the wise guys making flippant remarks And fourth we have a few purists recommending or disapproving of particular translations I don t really find any of these approaches very satisfying I can t accept the statement that this is the word of God and all literally true to pick one of the standard examples Joshua s making the sun stand still appears wildly far fetched I m sorry if that offends the Christians in the audience If it makes you feel any better I ll offend the Scientologists too and say that I don t believe that 75 million years ago Xenu the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy brought billions of his people to Earth in DC 8 like spacecraft stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs OK I ll admit that I also like making flippant remarks But let s try and be serious for a moment and apply normal critical standards to this work That involves comparing it other similar books What s similar to the Old Testament It s a tricky uestion To start off with what genre does it belong to It was written so long ago that modern categories don t apply If you attempt to fit it into one of those categories you find it s a bunch of things an epic poem a religious allegory a history and a work of science Now we think of those as being different But when the Old Testament was written they were all mixed up together In particular it s easy to forget that Science as a concept is a very modern invention As recently as the early eighteenth century they called it Natural PhilosophyConsidered as an epic poem based on a religious allegory the Old Testament is often brilliant This is uncontroversial even Richard Dawkins is happy to agree and uotes numerous examples in the relevant chapter of The God Delusion Obvious comparison points are Homer Dante and Milton The only modern author I can think of is Tolkien All of those are arguably better taken as a whole in particular they are coherent but at least in my opinion the best passages in the Old Testament are better than the best passages in the other books If you disagree just off the top of your head uote me a passage from The Iliad The Divine Comedy Paradise Lost or The Silmarillion which you consider superior to the Twenty Third Psalm The Lord is my shepherd if you re no good with numbers Maybe you can come up with something I m curious to see what it is To me though the serious competitor is the New Testament It s by no means inferior as poetry and Jesus is a complex and interesting character than Jehovah The Old Testament position on moral and ethical issues now seems rather dated and Jehovah like Zeus and Odin often comes across as not much than a wise tribal chieftain with unusually powerful technology Jesus on the other hand seems entirely relevant even today and his bold and unconventional ideas still have the capacity to shock and amazeGiven the popularity of Creationism I guess I have to say something about the Bible as a work of science I m inspired here to follow Feynman s treatment of Newton in ED which I read last week Feynman is very respectful towards Newton and says what a great man he was but he also points out where Newton got it wrong We just know now Well put in its historical context I think that the Old Testament was way ahead of its time uite apart from the fact that it s great poetry Genesis is a remarkably sophisticated creation myth Consider the first few versesIn the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth And the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters And God said Let there be light and there was lightPeople who know about modern cosmology may want to nitpick this On the other hand if you had to describe the first few minutes of the Universe to a bronze age nomad I d like to see you do better You aren t going to be able to explain inflation and nucleosynthesis to them you ll have to improvise a bit and take the odd liberty But later on there are definite mistakes For example God makes the Earth before He makes the stars That s just incorrect and there s no reason why it couldn t have been presented in the opposite order The author of Genesis hadn t got a telescope and it was hard to figure this stuff out from first principlesTo sum up considering that it was written well over two thousand years ago the Old Testament is a startlingly good book that s still well worth reading today Before you knock it too hard consider how few other books there are from that period that can make similar claims And oh yes I was planning to say something about translations I think some are better than others but the point I wanted to make has already been made so much elegantly by Richard Curtis in his Skinhead Hamlet sketch I ll hand over now and let him conclude by giving you his scholarly opinions on the New English Bible

Summary Á PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ Anonymous Anonymous ↠ 0 Read Download The Holy Bible Ll make a handsome addition to any home The revised translation is easily accessible Certainly not life changing or anything The plot was hard to follow and the editing was horrible The characters were painfully one dimensional and this Jesus guy delivered some of the worst dialogue I ve ever read All in all I found it too long and it took itself way too seriously The fact that it sells so well is beyond me and the way people hold it up you d think God himself had written the damn thing

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Summary Á PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ Anonymous Anonymous ↠ 0 Read Download The Holy Bible This up to date version of the universally accepted text from the King James Bible wi Badly edited poor continuity and internal consistency Authors seem to change between books Plot is cliched and thin with virtually no character development save for Judas Iscariot The main characters of Jesus and Moses are entirely one dimensional messianic figures The novel opens with Adam and Eve and then ignores them for the next thousand pages or so The built in bookmark was a nice touch but a little pretentiousOddly it wasn t shelved with the other fiction books