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Originally Posted by Quoth
The Bible isn't a history book, though it has history in it.
Or you could read the actual bible and recommended commentaries written by expert humans instead of uncurated scraping from the internet. There is study software for PC (on Mac, Windows & Linux) that is comprehensive and free.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SWORD_Project
and
https://bibletime.info
The Christians' Old Testament (and there are different collections) and the Hebrew Tenach (more or less the same thing, and English versions exist) are collections of quite different kinds of books, only some of which are having history.
Hebrew / Jewish Version is called the Tanakh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible#Books
Main three divisions- Torah or Law: Five Books of Moses
- Nevi'im (נְבִיאִים Nəḇīʾīm, "Prophets") is the second main division of the Tanakh, between the Torah and Ketuvim. This division includes the books which cover the time from the entrance of the Israelites into the Land of Israel until the Babylonian captivity of Judah (the "period of prophecy"). Their distribution is not chronological, but substantive. It has three main groups.
- The Ketuvim (/kətuːˈviːm, kəˈtuːvɪm/;[1] Biblical Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים, romanized: Kǝṯuḇim, lit. 'Writings')[2] is the third and final section of the Hebrew Bible, after the Torah ("instruction") and the Nevi'im "Prophets". In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, this section is usually titled "Writings" or "Hagiographa".[3] Collectively, eleven books are included in the Ketuvim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketuvim
Ketuvim Contents- In the Ketuvim, 1–2 Chronicles form one book as do Ezra and Nehemiah which form a single unit entitled Ezra–Nehemiah.[4] (In citations by chapter and verse, however, the Hebrew equivalents of "Nehemiah", "I Chronicles" and "II Chronicles" are used, as the system of chapter division was imported from Christian usage.)
- Poetic books: Psalms, Proverbs and Job.
- Five Scrolls: The five relatively short books of the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther are collectively known as the Ḥamesh Megillot.
- Besides the three poetic books and the five scrolls, the remaining books in Ketuvim are Daniel, Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles.
The Christians' Old Testament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament
Reading even the "historical" parts as history is missing the point, though some in Israeli Universities actually study the historical Jewish content in the Christians' New Testament. All the writers were Jewish, even Luke, who was a convert, because Jews do not refer to converts as converts. |
Or, I could do what I am doing. I am reading the “actual Bible”. And the AI is trained in all those commentaries. And I don’t treat the AI as authoritative, nor would I treat any of those commentaries as authoritative. Nor are my Christian friends. Nor is my pastor or elders.