I've decised to read the Bible..again.

[orpheus]

I've been wanting to re-read it myself. Of course a huge amount of it is unbelievably offensive, but it's such an important and influential work; a lot of literature, art and music simply makes no sense without it. And there are some parts of the KJV I find extremely beautiful (e.g. Ecclesiastes).

[Clinton Huxley]

There was a Gideon's in my hotel room yesterday. It was bookmarked at the Book of Job. I opened it to read it but couldn't stomach more than a verse so I hid the bible on top of the wardrobe.

[Rum]

Perhaps we can get a job lot of God is not Great and replace Gideon Bibles with a copy at every hotel any of us stay at!

[Clinton Huxley]

Perhaps we can get a job lot of God is not Great and replace Gideon Bibles with a copy at every hotel any of us stay at!

I think hiding the bible is an internet meme thing. There's website and everything. Travelodge is so spartan, though, that opportunities for hiding things are minimal.

[Rum]

Perhaps we can get a job lot of God is not Great and replace Gideon Bibles with a copy at every hotel any of us stay at!

I think hiding the bible is an internet meme thing. There's website and everything. Travelodge is so spartan, though, that opportunities for hiding things are minimal.

Replace the toilet paper holder with it.

[Clinton Huxley]

Toilet paper? This is not the Ritz

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Egyptians kept records as to how many cats were sacrificed to Bast each day. Not noticing tens of thousands of foreign workers for four centuries is the fatal flaw in this bullshit.

Well, the whole talking-snake-rib-woman thing doesn't strike me as the tightest science either.

[Rum]

Toilet paper? This is not the Ritz

No puppies on a roll there then?

[Clinton Huxley]

Toilet paper? This is not the Ritz

No puppies on a roll there then?

The worst is the soap. Oh, the soap.....

[Rum]

From Genesis to crappy soap in three easy stages. Ratz have a lot to be proud of!

[Clinton Huxley]

It is easier for a soapy man to pass through the eye of a needle.

[JimC]

Bah humbug!

[Thinking Aloud]

The back of my throat tastes like soap.


A few years ago, I actually bought a 'modern' bible to try to read. I didn't want to be bothered translating KJV English at the same time, and figured that a more up to date translation might have ironed out some of the translations by now... I got somewhere around Judges, I think, before the boredom and sheer scale of trying to note down contradictions got the better of me. And, of course, the translation problem is much much worse than I could have imagined at the time - the modern re-tellings of the tales add further to the confusion as other subtle changes in text compound the previous ones...

Anyway, if you visit my house, you'll find many bibles (inherited mostly), but they're all kinda dusty.

[Svartalf]

Did you brings your own bible and scissors to the bible class? Take out these sections:

Although the Book of Exodus describes a period of Hebrew servitude in ancient Egypt, more than a century of archaeological research has discovered nothing which could support its narrative elements— the four centuries sojourn in Egypt, the escape of well over a million Israelites from the Delta, or the three months journey through the wilderness to Sinai.The Egyptian records themselves have no mention of anything recorded in Exodus, the wilderness of the southern Sinai peninsula shows no traces of a mass-migration such as Exodus describes, and virtually all the place-names mentioned, including Goshen (the area within Egypt where the Israelites supposedly lived), the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses, the site of the crossing of the Red Sea (or, more commonly among modern Biblical scholars, the Sea of Reeds), and even Mt Sinai itself, have resisted identification. Scholars who hold the Exodus to represent historical truth concede that the most the evidence can suggest is plausibility.

wiki

Funny, if I check the wiki, Pithom is equated to a known city that the Greek called Heroopolis, and that might have been called "per Atum" in Egyptian... the city of Pi Ramses is well attested as capital of the Ramessids (and if a place called after Atum is mentioned side by side with that, it does talk for over a century of Hebrew presence in the area, as it bespeaks a presence stretching from the reigns of Akhenaton to that of Ramesses II at the very least.

As for Goshen, it might be a Hebrew name not reflecting local onomastics... the identification givent there is dubious at best.

[Svartalf]

There was a Gideon's in my hotel room yesterday. It was bookmarked at the Book of Job. I opened it to read it but couldn't stomach more than a verse so I hid the bible on top of the wardrobe.

You know that proper pronounciation makes it the book of Yob, right?