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Originally posted by honeychile
Just out of curiosity (and because I obviously have some sort of a stubborn streak going), have you ever read the entire Q'ran? Especially an edition that has had few translations (vs. Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English)? I have.
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Yep read it through in my Mediaeval scriptures class - the Chrisitan Bible (taught by a retired Vatican theologian), Qu'ran taught by Islamic scholar (whose specialties are Islamic apocolyptic literature, and of course the Qu'ran), and the Judaic scriptures (the whole Hebrew/Greek divide was interesting).
All in all a very facinating class that proved invaluable for another class dealing with the period of the Crusades...
However the one thing that I took away from the course was that to truely understand the scriptures one must understand the language and history - or the subtle and not so subtle nuances are completely lost on the contemporary reader.
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