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I don't think that outside of a religious perspective, that a reading of the Bible as any sort of coherent overall narrative makes any sense at all, given the c
by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I don't think that outside of a religious perspective, that a reading of the Bible as any sort of coherent overall narrative makes any sense at all, given the circumstances of it's composition. Different books of the bible were written by different people at different times, many of them were almost certainly edited by others at different times, and then it was all collected at a later time by other people for their own purposes. In particular, reading any kind of redemption narrative into the Hebrew bible is basically a christian viewpoint.
- farleykr 3y agoRedemption is absolutely baked into the Hebrew Bible. The claim that Jesus is the Christ is the Christian bit. The fact of multiple authors and time periods doesn't categorically negate the possibility of a coherent narrative. One may end up at the conclusion that there's no coherent narrative. But to correlate the impossibility of an overall coherent narrative with the fact of multiple authors over multiple time periods is to misunderstand the culture and circumstances that were responsible for its creation.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI'm curious how the apocrypha fit into this. Books have been actively filtered in order to create a coherent narrative.
- farleykr 3y agoNow I'm curious too. What parts of the apocrypha would throw a wrench in the gears of an otherwise cohesive narrative? Also, maybe I wasn't as clear about my point as I could have been. By cohesive narrative I don't mean that the Bible reads seamlessly like a novel. I mean that it has very clear themes that are introduced and fulfilled over the course of the whole book.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI don't know. That's why I'm curious. The apocrypha were removed for reasons, and I'd like to know why. This is not a topic I'm even remotely an expert on.