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The rejection of belief in the existence of deities

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c3cbdd No.14485

What's the best version of bible? As in the most accurately translated without Christfags trying to bend the translation to fit some interpretation? I'd like to find one translated by by scholars who were Atheists if that's even possible.

Take a controversial passage and look it up Almost every translation will butcher it. But if you get an accurate translation it can be a clear sign of polytheism in the Old Testament. Ex) Deuteronomy 32:8…

>When the Most High (Elyon, i.e., El) gave the nations their inheritance,

when he separated humanity,

he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of divine beings,

for Yahweh's portion is his people,

Jacob his allotted heritage.

(Wikipedia uses this version, which comes from a Septuagint variant. In some translations divine beings is rendered as sons of god, the nKJV uses angels, and translations from the 10th century Masoretic texts use children of Israel. Christians get to casually pick and choose the translations and annotations they want to believe in, but any Atheist who wants to seriously understand the evolution of the godhood should seek out the most literal translations and then understand what the terms really mean. That level of rigor is not for casual gamers.)

b28847 No.14497

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There's a good website called BlueLetterBible.com or something that has a bunch of different version of the Bible. Makes for good cross referencing in case someone says you've taken a verse out of context. Being able to find that verse in the same context said in various ways helps.


845ae8 No.14628

>>14485

Christfag here. Some notes

1) The old testament has frequent examples of henotheism, not polytheism.

2) There's no such thing as a "most accurately translated" version as the feel, flow, impact, implications of the text are all important. I could argue that the KJV is the most accurate translation as no other translation accurately draws on the same kind of imagery as the original.

That said, if you can pick up an NRSV with commentary, this is the most used by scholars for whom the original version isn't of utmost importance.




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