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6524837 No.6524837 [Reply] [Original]

How can a book that is so bad be so influential?

>> No.6524857

>>6524837
middle ages

>> No.6524863

The book didn't matter as much as the tradition and culture behind it. Your post would make sense if you used a Quran for a pic.

>> No.6524965

how can a book which unifies people against an made-up enemy, which forces its idiology on others, which kills people for refusing it not be influential and growing fast ? -exmuslim (still believe in god )

>> No.6525067

I'm gonna hijack this thread. What translation should I read?

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6525073

>How can a book that is so bad be so influential?
Psychedelic mushrooms.

>> No.6525089

>>6525067
New Standard Revised Edition complete for accuracy, King James for literary significance.

Also you shouldn't read it as "the bible" you should read it one book at a time and treat most books as separate whole books on their own, you don't have to go in order but you're a fag if you don't read Revelations last.

>> No.6525091

>>6525089
That first sentence sounds weird looking back, I mean books within the bible you should treat as whole books on their own. This will help you pick out what you really want to read first and foremost instead of finding yourself 100 pages into specific Jewish history with absolutely no context or care for the numerous kingdoms going up and down.

>> No.6525121

>>6524837
The willingness of people to arbitrarily defend their own culture coupled with the government's abuse of that to control them. It became so influential because it was the first religion to be globalized.

>> No.6525131

>>6525091
>>6525089
Thanks!

>> No.6525162

I don't know OP and why is the Iliad such a piece of garbage when it's been praised for millennia as one of the greatest literary works of all time I'll never understand.

>> No.6525807

>>6524837
Tradition, culture, history. Some parts of the book are glorious (aesthetically, of course) but that has little, if anything, to do with it.

>> No.6525813

>>6525067
Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible translations (he's done everything but the Twelve, the Major Prophets, and the Apocrypha), and Richard Lattimore's New Testament (he did the whole thing).

>> No.6527410

>>6524837
Bad by today's standards, it was supposedly written ages ago, remember.
Source: devil's advocate (or god's advocate, I guess)

>> No.6527494

>>6524857
by the year 400 more than 50% percent of the people living in the lands around the mediterranean were christian.
>muh middle ages