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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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"...put yourself in hell for all eternity okay doesn't make sense version problem is he refuses to admit he's wrong he would rather forget..."
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"...that shakespeare lets us see nevertheless is in them um macbeth's version of you know not all the perfumes are rabiable sweet in this..."
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"...uh shakespeare is acquainted with nihilism uh and with the machiavellian version of nihilism in the character of edmund for example in king lear..."
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"um dante's very insecure and he felt that he's abandoned by version i think so i think it's not"
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"...your wife and you love your parents. It's like a feudal version. That's the first point. And the second point is that Wikipedia says..."
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"...down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate the version Mary and became man. For our sake, he was crucified under Pontius..."
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"So yeah, this is the modern version, okay? Sorry. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's like the old version is the Trinity, okay? So..."
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"...that in Genesis, what Genesis is doing is combining four different versions of the Bible. And we know this because there are two different..."
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"...off vibe here, but what I'm saying is that the English version does not convey the idea of love enough. It talks about love...."
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