(December 10, 2021 at 3:40 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(December 9, 2021 at 9:00 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: The Bible is quite repetitive.That is a holdover from the ancient hebrew where the tradition is to say the same thing in two different ways. It persists to this day. It is a feature of Hebrew poetic writing.
If I were to "hem and haw" about some issue, everyone would understand that I was uncertain/unwilling/refusing a decision. But hem is the same as haw.
"Jot and tittle" is the same. There are countless examples and demonstrations, LOL. See I just did another one.
It is a literary device.
But is it wise to do that?
They just repeat themselves so many times.
They waste a lot of storage space.
John 21:25 KING JAMES VERSION
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
^^^^^This line tells us that they don’t have paper to write another line.
They should come to the 20 th century. Machines can produce a ton of paper per day.
We also have plenty of hard drive space.
The Mormon guy and his jewish forefathers had problems with storage space so they invented reformed egyptian so that it would compress better.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Egyptian
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...acters.png
Broadside_of_Book_of_Mormon_Characters.png
but the compression looks random. One line is very short and the next is way too long. It is just bonkers.
