>want to fully appreciate the western canon >finally get

>>9066918
>Jewish tickery
Are you redpilled as well?

>>9066918
These literary tricks were much more effective back then.

>>9066921
They are Jews and they do trick people, don't be so mad at /pol/ that you turn into a retard.

>>9066944
I'm redpilled as well, moron

>>9066944
>>9066921
>implying

>>9066918
Nice try, m8. Actually read it

Because that fucker Constantine was a populist

>>9066969
Constantine saw a cross in the sky and so converted the world into Christianity. Truly a blessed individual.

>>9066976
he was redpilled as fuck

>>9066918
"Faith" runs deep my friend. In the context of this conversation, I think we can equivocate it with "ideology," and for that I'll refer you to Solzhenitsyn (though the scope of his arguments do not contain this uber-ideology).

>>9066918
New Testament is far better than the Old in terms of writing

>>9067002
What are you considering "writing?" Are you referring to the prose or what?

>>9067003
yes
there are exceptions since the quality varies a lot within both works but in general the New Testament is written better, especially Matthew and the writings of Paul

>>9067002
They are equally redpilled

>>9067011
I intuitively agree with you, but I think if we are going for literary content (which would include prose), I can't really see anything better than Ecclesiastes for my money. But after re-reading the Pentatuch, while it defintiely took more analysis than I'm willing to bet most readers are willing to put into it, I think the Old Testament writers (or, compilers, to be more accurate) were onto some pretty fantastic stuff. And there's plenty of analogous in Western writers who were heavily influenced by Hebrew-translated stuff that makes for some relentless prose. Then again, I guess I can't really speak as concerns prose because I've only read translations, and miss whatever implicit beauty there is in the pure sound of the original.

Are there any bibles still printed in koiné

>>9066976
In hoc signo vinces.

>>9067029
The greatest book of Scripture is Romans, IMO.

>>9067052
Job, m8

>>9067052
Historically, I can give you that. Though I think an equal argument could be made for Revelations given all the post-Reformation sects that were formed around it. And honestly I've always thought that if serious theologians would have paid it any serious mind way back when it's potential for influence would have been far greater than a bunch of redneck spiritualists capitalizing on it's mysticism.

>>9067029
the point about translations is fair
Matthew is supposedly written in pretty shoddy Greek while the translations reveal a great work

>>9066918
The Bible is the most beautiful piece of literature ever created by man

>>9067034
Yes. The current scholarly edition is the 28th ed. Nestle-Aland text, which is published under the title Biblia Graeca: Novum Testamentum Graece. The Koine Greek translation of the Old Testament, known as the Septuagint, is published under the title Biblia Graeca: Septuaginta.

>reading the old testament
shiggy
just skip to revalation

>>9067077
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>>9067073
That's deep, man.

>>9067077
>reading a book
>not starting at the first chapter
now this is what I call autism

>>9067075
Ty

>>9066984
how blue-pilled can you get that you adopt an Abrahamic religion as the official theological canon of the Roman Empire

fucking normie reeeeee

>>9066918
skip the old testament it's not really the Bible

>>9066969
Christians made up about 5% of the empire in his time.

>he read the iliad without the lists
pleb as fucking cheap whore behind a bar

>>9067002
>better than Ecclesiastes
hell no, except maybe John's Revelation

>>9067011
Saul ruined Christianity