Judaism ForumOffended, or just complex questionsHello Webmaster, Hello All While the debate was heated and did raise some challenging questions, I dont think I expressed being offended by the bible. (The torah is a very important text forming the first five books and included Genesis, I would be in error if I were offended by it, but to question or consider the text is perfectly valid, you dont learn if you dont ask) I do feel sometimes that it is reasonable to confront some of the more difficult questions, And I do have quite a few. And yes many of them are from a Jewish perspective in my case. So I hope you have no objection to my starting this thread. and one question I would like to ask would be why there are so many contradictory things in the Torah, Now in the modern view, the acedemics tend to view the Torah as written by four authors or from four perspectives, (This goes against tradition of course) There are the J-hist, narratives, where Gd is described as being direct. (the quoted parts of Genesis follow this narrative style) The Elohimist, The Preistly and the Deutoronimist narrative styles. Because of this meaning can be confused, The Questions Kerry raised about the precise nature of the fall, or my questions about fatalism are inevitable. Having said this, the second temple era Jews were aware of these narrative styles, The essenes even produced a more unified Torah (Temple scroll), and were comfortable held with the notion that the authorship belonged to Moses. I wonder if it would not be a bad idea to look at the narrative styles and resolve some of the questions by understanding them better. You see if anything after Jerome (Vulgate bible) and later still Tyndall (His bible was the basis for the KJV) emphasised further the narrative styles in the Pentetauch (The Torah), it will be difficult to pick out the meaning in translation. I notice you had quotes Strongs transliteration earlier, which makes an interesting place to start. Can you further explain your position when debating with Kerry with more reference to the transliteration. I am certain that the Jerome/Tyndall translations used by present day christians present a subtle difference in the meaning. Shalom Sophie. |
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