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The student's shorthand for why scripture is hard to read directly: textual multiplicity complicates literal certainty and pushes the reader toward interpretation.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. All right. So first, let's ask a question. Okay? Have you read the Bible before? Okay. What's the problem with reading the Bible?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. All right. So first, let's ask a question. Okay? Have you read the Bible before? Okay. What's the problem with reading the Bible?"
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Jiang says one problem with scripture is textual multiplicity itself: the Bible comes in many versions and is therefore not something that can be naively mastered at the level of simple literal reading.
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"Okay. All right. So first, let's ask a question. Okay? Have you read the Bible before? Okay. What's the problem with reading the Bible?"
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"...team are going to do is upload uh um the complete version uh later today or whenever it's ready um and the third issue..."
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"Loads and loads of versions. It's pretty complicated, man. So what's the only way you can actually read the Bible? Use your intuition, man...."
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"...before we read Dante is I'm going to introduce the Catholic version of history. Okay? So, the end point of history is the Catholic..."
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"...um this is from the gospel of matthew um the niv version blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of..."
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"...doing i think it's actually uh pioneering it's actually an early version of protestantism so a kind of place of place where you return..."
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"...that it feels like a destination and we are the best versions of ourselves it's like we're above all what we have been through..."
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"...different variations. So I'll just go over a very simplified, clear version. And remember, if there's anything you don't understand, ask a question and..."
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"...that it's anti -historical, meaning that it is a very simplified version of how things work. It doesn't take into account other factors as..."
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"...field, you're going to have a range. And on one extreme version are those who hate power, but on the other extreme version are..."
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