I think the Hebrew Bible we have today is very messed up. I think it has been miscopied, misread, and misunderstood for thousands of years, and I think Bible scholarship has been a failure at fixing it and understanding it. I don't know why because Bible scholars are very educated, but they seem to be unable to figure out how to fix the messed up words. It is so messed up that I think most scholarly articles and books are a waste of time. I think Judaism and Christianity are both wrong, but are both very confident about their beliefs. I am an amateur Hebrew Bible researcher, and I have tried to do my own textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible that I think might be partially right, but I am not going to discuss my work in this comment.
Your article and all of the books and articles about the Hebrew Bible are all just discussing the opinions of different scholars over time. For some reason their opinions matter, but do they really? Did they really know what they were talking about or do scholars discuss their opinions because their opinions are ancient? It is possible they were just guessing about translations and interpretations, but because their work is ancient, their opinions are still discussed today? I like to think that these people were just ancient crackpots and amateurs whose opinions are still discussed just because their work is old. The same thing with the Talmud, the Targums, and the Septuagint.
I think the Hebrew Bible we have today is very messed up. I think it has been miscopied, misread, and misunderstood for thousands of years, and I think Bible scholarship has been a failure at fixing it and understanding it. I don't know why because Bible scholars are very educated, but they seem to be unable to figure out how to fix the messed up words. It is so messed up that I think most scholarly articles and books are a waste of time. I think Judaism and Christianity are both wrong, but are both very confident about their beliefs. I am an amateur Hebrew Bible researcher, and I have tried to do my own textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible that I think might be partially right, but I am not going to discuss my work in this comment.
Your article and all of the books and articles about the Hebrew Bible are all just discussing the opinions of different scholars over time. For some reason their opinions matter, but do they really? Did they really know what they were talking about or do scholars discuss their opinions because their opinions are ancient? It is possible they were just guessing about translations and interpretations, but because their work is ancient, their opinions are still discussed today? I like to think that these people were just ancient crackpots and amateurs whose opinions are still discussed just because their work is old. The same thing with the Talmud, the Targums, and the Septuagint.