/lit/ - Literature

>>16054062
*like Bradbury said

Stop saying "prose".

>>15645201
>its been rewritten so many times
Why do people think this? Yes, it's been translated several times. But the Bible has not gone through all these different rewrites like the drafts of a screenplay. While it's true the stories in Genesis were passed down through word of mouth, and we know the flood story is found in many other cultures, but for the rest of the Old Testament, it's always been written down, and so has the New Testament.

All our translations of the New Testament are not rewrites. The original manuscripts are in Greek, and they still exist in the world. They aren't so far in the past to be fragments. This was early A.D.

You are correct that when you say the texts are translated to fit the agenda, but they are not translations of translations of translations. This is huge misconception.