Post B54eCRqi3wbW3FQEAS by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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 (DIR) Post #B54eCRZh5CzdCTSde4 by anselmschueler@ieji.de
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       one thing I don’t understand about research into ancient texts like manuscripts of the bible is how it’s possible we’re so unsure about what the purpose or context of a lot of these arespecifically because modern texts have loads of contextual clues absolutely everywhereyou have summaries on the back of books, titles, indices, forewords, chapter titles, titles repeated in the margins, footnotes, author biographies, ads for other books, imprints, book spines, copyright notices, logos, and so on and so onobviously often we only get fragments but like I feel like we should be getting some snippets of context lots of the timelike you’re telling me some books of the bible were just from other texts put together and nobody ever wrote something like "compilation of creation accounts" or something at the top?
       
 (DIR) Post #B54eCRqi3wbW3FQEAS by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @anselmschueler@ieji.de often at the time everyone knew this so no need to say. later on the myths swamped out the reality. 'huand di nei jing su wen' chinese medicine text is like this. its completely obvious written by a bunch of different ppl, yet many refuse to accept.
       
 (DIR) Post #B56XbSXkJAP454S17A by anselmschueler@ieji.de
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       @brettm Sure, but if you had a bible today without "Bible" written on it people would still know what it was. Yet we still write "Bible" on it. And if you have some office paperwork to keep track of something regularly everyone knows what it is but you still often write "meeting attendance list" or "bonus payouts" on it
       
 (DIR) Post #B56XbSo3KXRmte52X2 by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @anselmschueler@ieji.de those old gospels were just oral for a long time then someone wrote them down on a scroll. then the 'official'  christians hunted down the ones they didn't like. a lot of the rest fled to africa. so i guess that confused things.