• Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The modern translation is a fairytale but if you get into the original Greek bible texts and supporting and opposing texts from Greco-Roman civilization it paints a very interesting picture of the corruption of the ancient world into the situation we call Western Civilization today. Hopeful eras where humanity improved like the Renaissance and the American Revolutionary War were in large part due to study and reemergence of pre-Christian pagan ideas from Greek antiquity.

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      This sounds like interesting material.

      Any books out there that compare and contrast? I’m curious, but not enough to possess two different Bibles.