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Saxon2060 OP t1_ix81bsk wrote

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I am mostly pretty aware of the stuff you mention but it hadn't really occurred to me that the "originals" were likely in totally vernacular or common speech and not especially poetic. I suppose that makes sense but I get the probably false impression that the prose was high-faluting because the KJV is in English... not really considering that they didn't write it in English, high-faluting or otherwise.

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Glitz58 t1_ix81uda wrote

The NT especially was written by second or third language speakers. I live in a second language country and see the language layers quite differently now. Paul's Greek was better than my French though.

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Glitz58 t1_ix82ch1 wrote

That 's why I went off fancy translations big way. And because I can't read it as a bunch of magic sayings, apart from the wisdom books it wasn' t written like that. We've played fast and loose with someone else's history. We'd go lary if people did that with our history. I think the OT at least should be judged on a similar level like hyroglyphics for example.

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Glitz58 t1_ix82uyt wrote

PS I don't get why someone down voted your post. I think it's common sense. I suppose someone is triggered about something. Once you know what to spot it's all over the place. Even in the Terry Pratchett Discworld Series that I like. Its part of our literary and cultural heritage.

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