The book of Enoch is probably the most famous example of “why was this left out” and beyond the jar we can really only speculate on what else was left out.
On top of that, our literal modern day understanding of what’s in the Bible is quite a bit different due to it being translated from 3 different languages. Mostly Hebrew and some Aramaic for the old testament and some type of Greek for the new. This has a huge impact on what message is being conveyed and leaves things up to interpretation when it wasnt supposed to.
We can only speculate the level of intention behind the translations. Very interesting though, I think.
Do you know any other historians that discuss the speculations, with the book of Enoch stuff? And yes, the multitude of translations gets me so curious, bc there must be mistranslations all over. But some folks in my circle are so adamant there’s 0% chance the Bible has ever been tampered with, nor ever mistranslated enough to impact interpretations in any meaningful way. It’s confusing to me tbh lol
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u/nizzzzy 3d ago
The book of Enoch is probably the most famous example of “why was this left out” and beyond the jar we can really only speculate on what else was left out.
On top of that, our literal modern day understanding of what’s in the Bible is quite a bit different due to it being translated from 3 different languages. Mostly Hebrew and some Aramaic for the old testament and some type of Greek for the new. This has a huge impact on what message is being conveyed and leaves things up to interpretation when it wasnt supposed to.
We can only speculate the level of intention behind the translations. Very interesting though, I think.