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It's kind of hard to maintain interest in the Bible, even as a fictional text, when the world-building is so shoddy. Most modern fiction maintains a much higher self-consistency than the Bible.
@skypage Oh, you don't even need to switch authors or languages. I mean, just read a few passages from a section of a book, especially the Old Testament, and you'll run into inconsistencies.
@skypage *especially IN the Old Testament
@thor
It's hard to say if that's due to shortcomings in translation. I can't read the source material, so I have no way to truly know
@thor Gently, sir, you're applying standards of modernity and truth-values to a work written against very different standards.
@thor
There's a large number of authors, in several languages as well. Just getting different translations will give you a vastly different take on different passages. I wouldn't be surprised if parts of the New Testament which were written in Greek are difficult to translate due to the subtlety of verbs in that language.