
Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently
The Bible For Normal People
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Interpretation Is a Part of the Human Condition
An interpretation is required for any text that we read, because otherwise we've just got dots and dashes on a page. Making it more confusing is that all translators are traiders - every time you translate something, something goes out of the original in terms of connotation or word association. So if you have a law that says, don't murder, then you have to figure out what constitutes murder; does that include manslaughter or self protection or what not? It's part of the human condition.
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