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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T17:15:55.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I've been wanting to read \"The Bible\" some time, just to understand what's going on.\n\nBut I understand it as a collection of texts translated and interpreted over time. Reading a \"The Bible\" on its own would be useless.\n\n  * What texts were excluded and why?\n\n  * What passages have contentious interpretations?\n\n  * I know there are different clans of Christianity, is this passage a big deal to evangelicals?\n\n  * Does this passage appear in the Tanakh? Is this passage referenced by the Prophet Mohammed? What about the Prophet Joseph Smith?\n\n\n\n\nIdeally I'd want to read something by someone who does not buy into the idea that God actually exists.\n\nI find similar questions for any Old Text. Just like Dante needed Virgil to guide him through Dante's Inferno, I need something to guide _me_ through Dante's Inferno. Or Shakespeare. I need someone to explain how \"Get thee to a nunnery\" is Hamlet being a little piss boy tormenting Ophelia. I need someone to explain why Beowulf gets naked, and I need someone to explain if a particular passage in the Canterbury Tales hits hard in the original Middle English and why.\n\nI really, really, _really_ appreciated my AP English teacher from highschool. I should email him. But I forgot his name :-(",
  "title": "What's an \"Old Text\" (at least 100 years old) you like? What additional study would you recommend with it?",
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