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I read probably 40% of it for school, including most of the Old Testament.
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Have you read the entire Bible?
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I liked the stories in the Old Testament when I was a kid. Also read about 1/2 of the New Testament. I like the Book of Revelations.
As an adult, I've stopped going to church except when my mother makes me. *sigh* Christmas is coming up. I no longer read the bible either.
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Probably have read it in its entirety several times in English. As a young man (21), I read the entire Latin Vulgate. I have probably read the New Testament in the original Greek several times over.
I always wished I'd learned enough Hebrew to read the Old Testament in the original. I tried teaching myself Hebrew but kind of got bogged down in all those complex verbs!
Somebody mentioned the Mahabharata. I once--in an over-ambitious moof--bought a complete set of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, hoping to get my Sanskrit up to a level where I could read it. That did not come to pass, and I fear I have forgotten nearly all my Sanskrit, although I might try taking it up again when I retire.
A current project of this sort is re-reading the Iliad in the original. The fact that I have read it in the Greek three times before makes it somewhat easier. However, the last time I read it was probably 40 years ago. After I finish the Iliad (I'm in Book XVIII at the moment), I then want to do the Odyssey, then shift over to Latin and re-read the Aeneid. That is fresher in memory, since I only re-read it about 12 years ago.
I always wished I'd learned enough Hebrew to read the Old Testament in the original. I tried teaching myself Hebrew but kind of got bogged down in all those complex verbs!
Somebody mentioned the Mahabharata. I once--in an over-ambitious moof--bought a complete set of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, hoping to get my Sanskrit up to a level where I could read it. That did not come to pass, and I fear I have forgotten nearly all my Sanskrit, although I might try taking it up again when I retire.
A current project of this sort is re-reading the Iliad in the original. The fact that I have read it in the Greek three times before makes it somewhat easier. However, the last time I read it was probably 40 years ago. After I finish the Iliad (I'm in Book XVIII at the moment), I then want to do the Odyssey, then shift over to Latin and re-read the Aeneid. That is fresher in memory, since I only re-read it about 12 years ago.
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It's nice to know a man with a true classical education still exists.Originally Posted by Piobaire
For a little longer, anyway!
Actually, I'm not very gifted mechanically. Surprisingly, this is quite common among gun writers. Quite a few I have known are much worse than I am, and that's saying something!
Thanks for the kind words, Piper Findlatter!
Read the Bible 4 or 5 times all the way through, but read the "important" stuff like the Pentateuch and the Gospels and the Pauline Epistles probably more than 20 each.Originally Posted by kwilkinson
I'm now working through all the non-canonical works (as many as I can find), the Koran, and some of the Biblical time mythologies for some context of what the Bible meant to the people living in it.
Why have you read it so many times? Did you get something different out of it every time?
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As with some of the others, probably had the whole thing read to me before I ditched the church around 17 years of age.
My mother is what you would call "hard core." She literally wears Bibles out and has to buy new ones. Of course she saves the previous ones. Without a doubt 80% of the text is underlined by the time she's done with it, and all the margins are filled with hand writing, using these special red pens she'd always give me in my sock for Christmas. I think for some evangelicals, underlining passages is somewhat similar to saying the Hail Mary for Catholics.
My mother is what you would call "hard core." She literally wears Bibles out and has to buy new ones. Of course she saves the previous ones. Without a doubt 80% of the text is underlined by the time she's done with it, and all the margins are filled with hand writing, using these special red pens she'd always give me in my sock for Christmas. I think for some evangelicals, underlining passages is somewhat similar to saying the Hail Mary for Catholics.
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As with some of the others, probably had the whole thing read to me before I ditched the church around 17 years of age.Originally Posted by quinnk
My mother is what you would call "hard core." She literally wears Bibles out and has to buy new ones. Of course she saves the previous ones. Without a doubt 80% of the text is underlined by the time she's done with it, and all the margins are filled with hand writing, using these special red pens she'd always give me in my sock for Christmas. I think for some evangelicals, underlining passages is somewhat similar to saying the Hail Mary for Catholics.
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