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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
How many people consider that they have read the Bible?
And how many of them have read it in Hebrew and Greek?
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Many don't.
As a Roman Catholic I learned in my Catholic high school religion class to take it all with a grain of salt because of the issues with translations and then heaped upon it the different ecumenical councils that decided the fates of the different books of the bible.
But you can see that difference of the many forks of the bible when you compare the King James to the New World. ( List of English Bible translations. It was imperative that we be thinking critically as we read ALL of the biblical texts so that we could better understand the writers and authors of the different books.
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Originally Posted by Librarian of the Year, Nancy Pearl
Librarian of the Year disagrees with Huckleberry Finn edits - Seattle News - MyNorthwest.com
"It's not used in a hectoring sort of way, but it's a way that reveals the way the country was at that time," says Pearl. "Reading Huck Finn, as painful as it could be, and is for some people, because of the language that Twain uses. I think those are teaching moments, those are discussion moments."
Pearl says despite the publisher's good intentions, it's still the political correctness police trampling on a literary classic.
"To rewrite history, the way that they're doing that, I think is distressing."
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