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Re:Translating the Bible is a vexed task by krapp on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:29PM (#34482434)
What's interesting about that is it's obviously only referring to the book of Revelations itself, since "The Bible" as such didn't even exist at the time, if it isn't a late addition. Yet Christians apply it to scripture as a whole.

Also, IIRC, Revelations almost didn't even make it into the Biblical canon, like a lot of other apocryphal books it was considered too crazy for the mainstream.

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Re:Translating the Bible is a vexed task by bazoom42 on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:15AM (#34486325)
The Bible did exist, just not the section called the new testament.
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Re:Translating the Bible is a vexed task by krapp on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:26AM (#34487608)
"The Bible" is a Christian invention. What existed was the Torah and other Hebrew texts, whose incorporation into Christian canon is based on retroactive continuity, and has never been recognized as valid within Judaism.
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Re:Translating the Bible is a vexed task by bazoom42 on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:22AM (#34488412)
AFAIK Bible is from Greek and was used by Greek speaking Jews to refer to their sacred books.
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Re:Translating the Bible is a vexed task by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:14AM (#34500048)
> Yet Christians apply it to scripture as a whole.

I mean. some do, but, that’s hardly the only position.

http://actsapologist.blogspot.com/2016/05/how-does-catholic-...

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