The Torah versus People Magazine

Sep 17, 2007 18:54

I've found a new book to read during my lunch breaks at work: the Torah. So far it has read like a rambling children's fable, filled with contradictions, repeated ideas, and written with broad strokes (not too much in the way of details, unless they happen to be of the trivial sort). At times it seems that the thing was written in the style of Read more... )

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licensed2hench September 18 2007, 18:03:37 UTC
Yeah People is mostly ads and insipid articles I could care less about or "Major" items that I heard about months ago.

Apparently translating Hebrew can be tricky.
Though they shoudl have gotten all the kinks out of a english version by now.

I had the same issues every time I try to read the bible. 3 or 4 tries now?
(Multiple translations)

(Hmmm maybe I should take a look at the other major religuos texts.)

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