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3114438 No.3114438 [Reply] [Original]

So how do I approach the bible without thinking 'shit' the whole time? A lot of western philosophy seems to reference it in some way, so I guess maybe I should give it a read over. How do?

>> No.3114450
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Worth $20?

>> No.3114454

Why do you think it's shit the whole time?

You were just brainwashed, you're taking it too seriously by thinking "shit" the entire time, just as those that rely on the bible to live.

Read it as any book. It's a fantastic mythological and religious piece, with lots of insights, some incredible sensible, others frightening insane. Some parts are boring as fuck, it's a choir to get through them, others just flow.

>> No.3114455

>>3114450
No, you can get them for free all over.

>> No.3114460

>>3114454
>it's a choir to get through them,
that's fucking beautiful

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>>3114460
Fuck, I meant "chore".

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>>3114454
Yeah basically i've been brainwashed. Anytime the Bible or Christianity are brought up someone either comments on the truth they hold, or the falsities. Would the ESV suffice, or should I find a different version?

>> No.3114486

>>3114455

where's the nearest place I can get a free KJV at

>> No.3114493

>>3114486
maybe a church. just go and be like, 'aye yo! I need god in my life and i want a book. help a nigga out.'

>> No.3114494

>>3114438
Approach the Bible as a literary text and The key to Knowledge in that is can be read as a metaphor on the problem of reading the unknowable, given we live in an age where the arbitrary nature of signs and signifiers is well known, therefore, we need a way to read the unreadable. Use the Bible as a metaphor for knowing the unknowable in a world of Jobbean suffering and bastardry.

>> No.3114496

>>3114455
A _good_ annotated KJV is worth your eye teeth. OUP/CUP of course.

>> No.3114499

>>3114484
If you're reading the bible as an English language text your one option is King James Version. That's it. That's the version everyone references in English. (You could go old old incredibly old Wycliff style). But go for an annotated KJV and understand what the ECW was about.

>> No.3114528

>>3114494

Very well said.

>> No.3115502

>>3114499

One thing to remember about the KJV bible in the New Testament is that it's more or less a direct translation from the original Greek (New KJV makes up for this some). It's a fine translation, just be ready for some weird annotations.

>> No.3115530

>>3115502
Yes, I would recommend another translation if the purpose of this reading was to know Christ.* But it isn't, it is to understand the Bible as a socio-cultural object, and the only way to do that is KVJ in English.

*double-spoilerFucking tulpa fags.

>> No.3115537

>>3115502
>One thing to remember about the KJV bible in the New Testament is that it's more or less a direct translation from the original Greek
No it isn't. It's heavily based on the Tyndale Bible and translators also referred to the Latin Vulgate translations heavily. It also isn't a word for word translation, so it loses a lot of rhetorical sense of the Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew sources. The annotations only offer alternative words too.