>reading Genesis >think you're making progress >still

>>8717620
Half of that brick is skippable my lad
Protip: all the prophet books are garbage

It's not that bad, you're making a lot more progress than you think

Go to the table of contents or look up the traditional Christian division of the Bible on Wikipedia and you will see that the Pentateuch and the History books are actually fairly small

Wisdom and Prophets are a lot easier, and the New Testament is a LOT easier

>>8717620
Genesis is so short wtf

>>8717643
Genesis is one of the longest books of the OT. Only Psalms, Isaiah, and Jeremiah beat it out in length.

It's basically a shitton of pre-Exodus history squished down into one book, which can make reading it easier (since it has swift sections and easily digestible genealogy lists) or harder (since it lacks characterization that most later books have).

best bible translation?

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>>8717677
This question should automatically be posted with pic related.

>>8717662
It's like 60 pages....

It's one of the few books from the bible that I have read but it's my favorite so far. I picked up on a theme of forgiveness and repentance throughout the stories starting with Adam and Cain refusing to repent and ending with Joseph being a total bro when a lesser man would have judged his brothers himself. There's also an undercurrent of how god can bring a greater good by allowing evil to exist.

>>8717721
I always looked at Genesis as "sometimes shit happens, whether by your own hand or someone else's, and that's just the way the world works and you gotta deal with it", but I like your analysis as well.

>>8717643
I mean for the whole bible.

>>8717638
>all the prophet books are garbage

Truth.

Once you get to them, you might as well skip to either the Apocrypha or the New Testament.

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>start with the Greeks
>spend a year on Plato
>still have two millenia of philosophy ahead of you

why the fuck did they wrote so many pages omg

>>8717983
It takes talent to write shitty on purpose and you can't even do that.

>>8717972
Bro, same fucking boat. Just cracked open Aristotle, but I'm still missing a ton of Plato and I want to get to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and stuff but I feel like I'll never make it.

>start studying latin

>do quite well for a month and a half

>get to actually putting sentences together and just stare at the pages in fright

>still haven't gone back to it.

Reading is easy for me, studying, applying, and then having to think about the overwhelming amount of things ahead of me scare me in my tracks. I give up on most things i do that require long constant periods of active thought or practice. Oh ya this is a blogpost.

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>>8717930
>>8717638
>just skip the sections that set up Jesus

>>8718311
Lmao faggot I know hes coming so why wouldn't I just skip to the parts he's in? Fag

>>8718311
>events take place in the 8th century BCE
>written down soon after
>foreshadow events 700 years later
Lol this is what Christians actually believe

t. BA in Hebrew Bible

>>8717972
I miss shrekchan

>>8718311
negro please

AFAIK, only Isaiah does that, and *only* in shitty/late copies of it, like in the Septuagint. Every other prophet book is just old dudes talking about how everyone is gonna die, but then how everyone will be saved, too. It's literally Westboro Baptist Church levels of insanity, but more bipolar (and thus occasionally happy) and entirely focused on Jews.

Isaiah and Jeremiah also mark the first time that Israel is straight-up referred to in female terms (as a daughter, in Isaiah, and then as a prostituting wife in Jeremiah; one might argue that it happened earlier in Song of Solomon, but I just think the Israelites wanted some softcore porn in their official texts). Beyond those little things, the prophetic books are just the angry ramblings of old guys.

>>8717620
Just find a 52 week plan for reading the bible and read it bit by bit.

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>>8718438
>AFAIK, only Isaiah does that,

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

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>thinking Genesis is long
>pic related

>>8717620
>falling for le meme book

the bible is objectively mediocre, just read a few summaries