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Question: How much of the Christian Bible have you read? (Your faith)
#1
All of it, more than once (Christian)
 
#2
All of it, only once (Christian)
 
#3
More than half of it (Christian)
 
#4
Less than half of it (Christian)
 
#5
None of it (Christian)
 
#6
All of it, more than once (non-Christian)
 
#7
All of it, only once (non-Christian)
 
#8
More than half of it (non-Christian)
 
#9
Less than half of it (non-Christian)
 
#10
None of it (non-Christian)
 
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The Mikado
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« on: May 11, 2011, 05:45:35 PM »

Epic bump.  I'm not sure whether to report you or not, Frodo.

Anyway, I hate to respond to six-year-old posts, but:


Actually, while they did speak that, you wouldn't need it to read the original Bible, because none of the original Bible was written in Aramaic.

Big chunks of Ezra and Daniel are in Aramaic.

Anyway, the answer to the question is "yes," though I skimmed most of the Psalms.
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« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 08:09:01 PM »


The Bible, Part 30: Nehemiah and the Wall of Jerusalem.

The Bible, Part 22:  More Chronicles.  You Can Probably Skip This One

The Bible, Part 67: Even More Psalms

The Bible, Part 69: The Song of Songs
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2011, 08:26:35 PM »

The critics loved the postmodernist thriller that was Revelations - Allegory of Imperial Oppression but the audiences were less keen.

"The shot where the number "666" evolved into the words "NERO CAESAR" and from there into "BARACK OBAMA" baffled and offended many viewers, but the portrayal of the Whore of Babylon as the Roman Goddess of Victory transforming into Lady Liberty led to a near-walkout."
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 01:56:48 AM »

Only parts of it.

A couple years ago I decided that considering how much time I spend educating myself on all sorts of other stuff from chemical engineering (my major) to politics to professional sports (diehard Cleveland fan) to collegiate-level distance running, I knew/know embarassingly little about the Catholic faith I allegedly believe.

Since then I've put a lot more time into learning about religion and have read a decent amount. But sitting down and reading the entire Bible is a very tall order. I've managed to get myself to read the Gospels and right now I'm very slowly getting through various epistles. But the Old Testament will probably take me years. Maybe I'll have read the whole thing by the time I die. Smiley

Don't read the Old Testament straight through, Genesis-Malachi.  That way lies madness.  Pick and choose books, or even parts of books, and read them one at a time.  Daniel, for example, is a very accessible, reasonably short book with some great stories (including a few in the Catholic version that aren't in the Jewish/Protestant version Wink).  (That reminds me, I need to start a thread about Biblical Apocrypha)  Proverbs is full of insightful and interesting advice, and is pretty accessible.  The real mountains are either the Psalms (don't read all 150 of them in a row, but scatter them throughout your other reading) or the Major Prophets (Isaiah in particular is just gigantic.  Beautiful, but gigantic).
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