RE: Interpreting Mark 15:34--'eloi 'eloi lama sabachthani
December 30, 2011 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2011 at 10:04 am by Barre.)
(December 28, 2011 at 8:11 am)aleialoura Wrote: Barre! Again? The bible is ancient trash fiction!
It is simply ignorant to talk of the Bible as some sort of supernaturalistic, unified "book." No, it is obviously a collection of many documents, many of which have undergone significant editing. I can only conclude that you know next to nothing about the academic study of the Bible and probably know little about the contents of these ancient writings. Your triumphant statement is patent blather. You are making yourself look no-minded, uneducated and stupid... and proud of it to boot.
(December 28, 2011 at 10:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Then you need to understand that people around here react negatively to bible studies because we have too many nutjobs show up insisting that this shit is not only REAL but LITERAL and trying to shove it up our asses as the 'word of god.'
It gets tiresome.
I am not one of them. . .by a long shot.
My complaint is that parsing words - which were written in ancient languages and then translated and re-translated into modern languages is pretty much a pointless exercise since we lack the original documents and have no way of knowing what the originals said.
You seem to be confused about textual criticism. Do you understand it?
Anyway, what you quoted turns up in Psalm 22:
Quote:Psalm 22
1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Kind of backs up Earl Doherty's point that this shit is little more than a rehash of the OT.
What shit are you talking about specifically and why, in your considered opinion, is it "shit?"
