
Journal mercedo's Journal: Jeremiah 14 4
Bible was relatively new book to me. I started reading the Old Testament several years ago and I stopped reading it when I finished reading Jeremiah Chapter 14. Back in my junior high school, at age 15 I read 4 Gospels recommended by one of my acquaintant, but I had kept away from the book for many years.
Many Westerners-Americans and Europeans often refer to the discriptions in the Bible as is so natural things, so I just wonder many Westerners already completed reading the Bible or just they know a part of the Bible and just refering to as a clue to assert their argument?
slow news day? (Score:2)
I've been sitting alone in the darkness of my mind lately.
very few actually read the bible, although many buy it, they buy it for as you said those 'passages' that they can look to and focus upon. they even sell them handily on keychains so one doesn't need to lug the whole book around.
but it hardly matters anyways, the bible has been translated so many times, the story adapted so many ways... twisted and convoluted in the ages... Roma
Re:slow news day? (Score:1)
Don't worry, by the way are you OK? If you feel loneliness, please post your comments in my journal. Welcome.
Thanks for letting me know the circumstances there, it was a little bit hard to guess. Now I understand a bit.
Folklore (Score:2)
Re:Folklore (Score:1)
all these are in our cultural DNA, and most of them are common knowledge
I must resume reading after Jeremiah 14 so that I can catch up with the average level Westerners already hold.
Translation matters, but not much. New Testament was written as you pointed out that koine-common Greek, widely spoken among tributes of Roman Empire after the invasion of Alexander the great his largest contribution in the area was a widespread of Western culture -koine was the most conspicuous