This is always what gets me about people who use the claim of divine inspiration for the biblical texts. Are then all the compilers and translators divinely inspired? Because our (Hebrew-reading) Ancient Near East lecturer pointed out last term that there have been severe liberties taken with some parts of the Bible (she used an example from Psalms) by some translators.
If one examines the Bible as one would any other historical source document, it is damn near impossible to be anything other than heathenish and dangerously free-thinking. :)
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Date: 2007-01-27 10:17 pm (UTC)This is always what gets me about people who use the claim of divine inspiration for the biblical texts. Are then all the compilers and translators divinely inspired? Because our (Hebrew-reading) Ancient Near East lecturer pointed out last term that there have been severe liberties taken with some parts of the Bible (she used an example from Psalms) by some translators.
If one examines the Bible as one would any other historical source document, it is damn near impossible to be anything other than heathenish and dangerously free-thinking. :)