/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22722426]

>Main character doesn’t show up until half way into the book which is a new canon by then
>Gets killed off after a couple chapters

Who wrote this?

[Anonymous No.22722430]

>long passages of nothing but lists of people's name
Coulda used an editor there Mr. God

[Anonymous No.22722457]

>main character is born from a trash oriental slave race
>name is Χρηστός

[Anonymous No.22722549]

Not literature

[Anonymous No.22722622]

>>22722426
Speedread-san, we've been over this. You have to actually read the words on the page and comprehend them before moving on from there. He was foreshadowed. All of the events were foreshadowed.

[Anonymous No.22722828]

>>22722430
This is legit why the Quran is functionally far superior than the Bible.
People claim to read the bible but the task alone makes it impossible for most and to actually take account for all of it's contradictions is only done by a few.

The Quron is concise and thought out. Given this, it is open to more people with access to dissect it and yet they still find less errors there than they do in the so beloved "bible"

[Anonymous No.22722860]

>>22722426
Main character shows up literally on the first page, retard

[Anonymous No.22722966]

>>22722430
the bible is largely a historic documentation. you wouldn't complain about a history book in this way.
>>22722828
>contradictions
>quron says the torah is true and the gospels are true and that allah doesn't lie
>if the old testament and gospels are true, quron is false.

[Anonymous No.22722998]

>>22722966
>quron says the torah is true and the gospels are true and that allah doesn't lie
This is wrong. It references archaic specialized texts that precurse the bible we see today and it also states that the Quran corrects those texts as well. Quit being a retard

[Anonymous No.22723030]

>"This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than God; but it is a verification of that (the Torah and Gospel) which IS between his (its) hands, and the explanation of the book, wherein there IS no doubt, from the Lord of the worlds." Jonah (Yunus) 10:37
these books were true and unchanged in their time

[Anonymous No.22723064]

>>22723030
to follow up, quran confirms the gospels as true but then goes on to say in Surah 4:157 that jesus was neither killed nor crucified. now if it says the gospels are false, then it denies its own teachings as allah's words cannot be false as none can change them.

[Anonymous No.22723725]

some of the blandest uninteresting 'storytelling' ive ever encountered. no wonder they have to brainwash from birth and shut out all other influences to get anything to stick.

[Anonymous No.22723750]

>>22722966
>the bible is largely a historic documentation. you wouldn't complain about a history book in this way.
name five historical books that dont use abrahamic religions as its primary subject matter that have extensive genealogies

[Anonymous No.22723796]

>>22723750
>this physics book details particles in an info dump rather than iambic pentameter. somebody hand einstein a copy of macbeth.

[Anonymous No.22723810]

>>22722966
Except nobody on /lit/ is telling me to read A Century of Change because "it's such great literature bro, trust me, I'm not trying to induct you into my skyjew cult, nosir!"

[Anonymous No.22723827]

>>22722966
There is zero historic evidence that the Israelites were ever slaves in Egypt. It's not historical, it's clearly fiction, Hebrew victim fiction.

[Anonymous No.22723843]

>>22722828
Yes, it almost seems like it was contrived.

[Anonymous No.22723856]

>>22723827
the point is that it is to be read a certain way. the same way you wouldn't read a poem as if it were a science book.
>Staying with mainstream Egyptian chronology would make Amenhotep II, seventh Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, the ruler who was forced to let God’s people go. Egyptian history indicates a sudden lack of military action by Amenhotep II beginning in 1446 BC, a fact that would be consistent with the loss of nearly the entire army at the Red Sea (Exodus 14:28). Ancient records also claim Amenhotep’s successor, Thutmose IV, was not the “true” heir—which would be true if Amenhotep’s firstborn son and “legitimate” heir died during the tenth plague (Exodus 11:4–5; 12:29). For those reasons, biblical interpreters are most likely to identify Amenhotep II as the Pharaoh of the exodus.
no proof, sure as once we go back 3000 years things get fuzzy, but this is interesting.

[Anonymous No.22723865]

>>22723856
Counterpoint: I would never read a science book ever again since I finished school, so why should I read The Bible straight through?

[Anonymous No.22723866]

>>22722426
Funny post anon, but seriously, Jesus is Yahweh so He shows up throughout the entire book. Also, the theophanies.

[Anonymous No.22723879]

>>22723865
you don't have to read it straight through and i bet most everyone would say you ought not to do that. start with the gospels, then dabble in psalm and isaiah, then maybe venture into acts paul's books. there is a lot of parallelism between the ot and nt so it is useful to have read it all but a straight through read isn't something anyone would recommend.

[Anonymous No.22723915]

>>22723725
I bet you believe you can change your gender huh

[Anonymous No.22723926]

>>22723879
Well I've read it ten times straight through and you can probably guess why and I am here to say, there is nothing in there that is a "must read", let alone Leviticus Numbers or Chronicles, all of which can safely be skipped. I would only recommend Luke and John, Acts, Ecclesiastes 1st Kings, and the Samuels in that order. Everything else is filler. I even find Song of Solomon to read like a cheap Harlequin Romance.

[Anonymous No.22723935]

>>22723915
I'll gladly accept anon's concession on op's behalf. Protip: never accuse someone of supporting trannies on 4chan, it's like waving semiphore flags that scream "I have no argument" plus nobody looks like that or says that.

[Anonymous No.22723950]

>>22723915
You guys are the ones who refer to yourselves as a "bride" and believe you're going to a land of make-believe where you'll all be asexual enbies.

[Anonymous No.22723958]

>>22722622
Name one other book where 80% of it is exposition.

[Anonymous No.22724222]

>>22723958
Most every non-fiction book? Exposition means a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

[Anonymous No.22724858]

>>22722828
>The Quran is concise and thought out
Even if this were true, the Qur’an is virtually useless when it comes to information because basic light readings of the text often lead to false interpretations that were refuted by scholars, or that the hadiths expand upon. For example, the chronology of the revelation of surahs is not included in the Qur’an, so in order to determine things (such as abrogation) one must look beyond the statements in the Qur’an.
Also one could just as easily critique the hadiths for being useless. Basically, Islam splits their holy text into the Qur’an and the hadiths, whereas the Bible just keeps it as one book.

[Anonymous No.22724860]

>>22722860
Anon, OP is not literate. Please disregard the thread.

[Anonymous No.22724879]

>>22722828

>>22724858
my bad, I stopped in the middle of my thought.

>Also one could just as easily critique the hadiths for being useless.
This is because of all of the links of narrators and other statements that provide extra details.
Just take a look at picrel. the stuff is greyed out simply because it’s too boring and translators don’t even bother translating that stuff. we get it bro, hadathanaa hadathanaa hadathanaa, and I’m not downplaying the importance of the chains of transmission, I’m just saying that exposition is not necessarily bad, even from the Islamic point of view.

[Anonymous No.22724886]

>>22722426
The main character in the Bible is God.

[Anonymous No.22725059]

>>22722430
this doesn't happen

[Anonymous No.22725089]

Because it's a bunch of separate books?