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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: How much should we read?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.211926.3642@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:19:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.012749.28803@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen) writes:
- >I remember the series on the Bible on PBS where one of the scholars
- >of the Dead Sea Scrolls was said to have 'flipped out' and denounced
- >Judaism as a barbaric religion. They explained this as part of his
- >mental problems and underlying anti-Semitism.
- >But after the spate of postings about violence in the Bible, etc.,
- >I'm beginning to wonder if whether this scholar was right! Here's
- >a guy who studied these texts (scrolls) for years, was a professor
- >from some well respected university, and his translations made him
- >think that it was barbaric! So then, this scholar is just swept
- >away by saying he lost his mind and/or has anti-Semitic views.
-
- A religion is barbaric if it teaches barbaric things. If it teaches
- non-barbaric things based on misinterpretations of a Bible that, interpreted
- properly, should instead be read as teaching barbaric things... well, that
- doesn't count.
-
- If the scholar discovers that the Bible teaches cruelty, all that means is that
- modern Judaism has made a mistake in giving passages a non-cruel reading, but
- it does _not_ mean that Judaism teaches cruelty. Anti-semitism probably _is_
- a motive for such a leap.
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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