Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 23:59:17 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 08/07/2025 03:36, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 10:00:35 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On biblical truth, I'll just point out that
we do see the waters of the sea flooding over
land from time to time.

 
Doesn't that happen on most beaches twice a day?

>
Catching up...  I was taking it that that
doesn't count.  Though I also was supposing
that the author of Psalm 104 may have not
personally seen the sea.
>
Here's "The NET Bible" version, I hope not
too much of a quote.  Not incidentally, its
scholarly footnotes include an assertion
that verses 7-8 refer to Genesis 1 and not
to the Noah story. <snippage>

I can see why they might reach that conclusion. It might well be
correct. But then, it might not.

I recently read two scholarly footnotes in the Oxford Annotated Bible
that, taken together, asserted that, while Dinah and her brothers were
all /tribes/, Shechem (whose capture an maltreatment of Dinah produced
dire results) was an /individual/.

So, per the scholarly footnotes, we have an /individual/ seeking to
marry a /tribe/.

This is why I regard these footnotes as interesting, but not
definitive: it is sometimes hard to tell whether they are actually
explaining something based on what it known of the local culture or
whether they are just making up just-so stories to explain the text to
modern readers.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"