Thinking about reading this whole trilogy Is it a good idea and

>>8794032
It translates poorly.

>>8794032
>the desert trilogy
>the desert
>desert
Is that why they keep calling that area "The Fertile Crescent?" I'm confused.

>>8794141
But these stories aren't primarily set in the fertile crescent...

Well, the Torah is part of the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, which refer to the same thing and are likely what the first image in OP's pic means). The Torah is usually known as the Pentateuch.

You might better be referring to the Talmud, which is literally just historical commentary on the Hebrew Bible, along with a focus on the laws in the Pentateuch.

>>8794174
wut

yes they are

>>8794189
no op, but im sort of interested in dipping my toe in the talmud. i know its incredibly long and have no interest in reading all the volumes, but do you have any good ideas for just getting a sense?

>>8794192
The Levant isn't the desert. The climate is similar to California coast

If I wanted to read the bible but I want to read something put together before the King James version what should I go for?

>>8795339
The Vulgate.

>>8794385
It is in the fertile crescent. Nobody in this thread said it was in the desert.

>>8795339

Tyndale, since he was the first English translator to interact meaningfully with the original Greek and Hebrew

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>>8794201
If you've read the Torah/Pentateuch, the Talmud has the same style of Leviticus and Numbers, but it's like 100 books and its laws are way more fucked up.

>>8795339
Geneva Bible

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>>8794032
kys atheist~

*tips hat-shaped parasite*

>>8796218
Allah is a Moon God. Muhammad was a Jesuit agent who got his orders from Rome

>>8796601
This is as stupid as that guy who pops up here every now and then who believes in the Flavian Conspiracy. The reasons for the stupidity are the same in both cases: if it was all a conspiracy, it backfired in the worst ways possible.

is it worth learning hebrew for literature or is the desert trilogy all that is offered of merit

>>8794032
Book of Mormon: The Jewish Holiday Special

>>8797197
The books of David Grossman and Amos Oz.

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>>8794385