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Re: The Brick Testament: Samson and Delilah
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Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:08:10 GMT
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Outstanding, as usual. I like the philistine minifigs. It seems like every
time you do a new story I think you’ll be out of ways to portray different
cultures. But you always do it great.
Anyway, I was reading through some of the other stories, and I wonder if you can
answer this question. This is more a question of the actual bible... why is it
that sometimes bible stories seem to have absolutley arbitrary points thrown in?
For example “Abdon had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy
donkeys.” I can see that counting the sons and grandsons shows his virility.
And I guess the donkeys shows his wealth... but why would they have said it that
way? Why wouldn’t they have just said, “He was rich” if that was the case?
Even if there is a large difference between our languages and cultures, and if
things got lost in translation, that seems an odd thing to put into holy text.
Felix
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| (...) I think that a lot of the old testament is probably collected from the notes of the rabbis of various tribes. And those people probably acted like a combination spiritual guide/general scribe of their tribes. So what we see is a combination of (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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