But as one example we’ve seen more progressive religious groups who learned ‘Lucifer’ was a mistranslation of Isaiah turn away from the Enochian interpretations of those passages and a distancing from the Milton-esque portrayal of sinister forces still present in things like American evangelical circles.
Considering evangelicals and other Christian extremists are gaining power in many countries, I’m not sure that this is a good example.
There’s going to be serious upsets in what people think they know about the Old Testament period and history in the next few decades given emerging research trends
I’m not sure what ‘emerging research trends.’ If you mean trends of fewer people going to churches or identifying themselves as religious, that doesn’t mean they don’t believe whatever translation of the Old Testament they happen to believe is anything but history.
but just like how in medicine it takes 17 years from research to broad awareness in practice, it’s going to take some time for discoveries in the past few years to snowball to broader awareness and perspective shifts.
They were saying the same thing during the Enlightenment. They were wrong then too.
I’m not sure what ‘emerging research trends.’ If you mean trends of fewer people going to churches or identifying themselves as religious
No, more things like the increased number of Ashkenazi users of ancestry sites including ancient samples confused by their closest genetic match being 3,700 year old Minoan graves or Iron Age Anatolian samples in parallel to archeology finding increased prevalence of early Iron Age Aegean style pottery made with local clay in supposed Israelite ancestral sites or the discovery of previously unknown Anatolian trade lines around honey production and four horned altars.
A lot of the ancient Greek and Roman historians of antiquity are going to be vindicated a bit for unanimous assertions that have been dismissed by modern perspectives heavily influenced by anchoring and survivorship biases from our sources.
What measurable effect has learning about the original translations of Biblical texts had on the world?
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There’s going to be serious upsets in what people think they know about the Old Testament period and history in the next few decades given emerging research trends
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I’m not sure what ‘emerging research trends.’ If you mean trends of fewer people going to churches or identifying themselves as religious, that doesn’t mean they don’t believe whatever translation of the Old Testament they happen to believe is anything but history.
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Blah blah blah Ashkenazi Jews blah blah Minoans.
But I guess you answered my initial question. Learning about the original translations of Biblical texts have had no measurable effect on the world.
“What people think they know about the Old Testament period and history” is markedly different from “how religious people are today and in the future.”
But with your last ‘quote’ there I think you said everything that needed to be said. Good luck with your opinions. I hope they work out for you.
Considering evangelicals and other Christian extremists are gaining power in many countries, I’m not sure that this is a good example.
I’m not sure what ‘emerging research trends.’ If you mean trends of fewer people going to churches or identifying themselves as religious, that doesn’t mean they don’t believe whatever translation of the Old Testament they happen to believe is anything but history.
They were saying the same thing during the Enlightenment. They were wrong then too.
No, more things like the increased number of Ashkenazi users of ancestry sites including ancient samples confused by their closest genetic match being 3,700 year old Minoan graves or Iron Age Anatolian samples in parallel to archeology finding increased prevalence of early Iron Age Aegean style pottery made with local clay in supposed Israelite ancestral sites or the discovery of previously unknown Anatolian trade lines around honey production and four horned altars.
A lot of the ancient Greek and Roman historians of antiquity are going to be vindicated a bit for unanimous assertions that have been dismissed by modern perspectives heavily influenced by anchoring and survivorship biases from our sources.
What are you even talking about?
Don’t worry about it. It’s just academic stuff.
It sounds like irrational stuff if you’re tying how religious people are today and will be in the future to the genetic lineage of Ashkenazi Jews.
I’m not sure where you got that from, or why you keep being so hung up on “how religious people are today.”
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But I guess you answered my initial question. Learning about the original translations of Biblical texts have had no measurable effect on the world.
“What people think they know about the Old Testament period and history” is markedly different from “how religious people are today and in the future.”
But with your last ‘quote’ there I think you said everything that needed to be said. Good luck with your opinions. I hope they work out for you.