2007-12-26 02:41:20 · 8 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is a record of the oral history of a race of people.
2007-12-26 02:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by Prophet 1102 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has some aspects of that, but it is also a historical narrative, a legal document, and many other facets. The Bible is by no means monolithic in its intent or subject matter.
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2007-12-26 02:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by athanasius was right 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's more like a loose collection of insane stories, stories within stories, bizarre ideas, violent dreams and crazy predictions. It would seem likley that many of the authers held an anti-fig agenda too
2007-12-26 02:48:05 · answer #3 · answered by Hmmbox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a way yes. The subject is primarilly about Jesus in both the Old Testament and the New.
2007-12-26 02:45:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In many cases yes, but add on years of translation, and verbal tradition to the stories before they were written down.
That explains the supernatural events depicted in it.
The Story of Joshua praying to God and stopping the earth from rotating so he could kill allot more Gentiles, probably started out as "We killed thousands of them, it seemed like time stood still as we slaughtered Hittite after Hittite."
Anyone who played Chinese wispers as a kid, knows what happens to accounts after several retellings.....
2007-12-26 02:46:31 · answer #5 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it's more of a book of stories that were finally written down after being orally passed down for hundreds of years....
2007-12-26 02:44:33 · answer #6 · answered by Adam G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I consider it a bunch of loosely associated myths tied together by assumptions about language that don't seem to hold.
2007-12-26 02:45:08 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was written by man, so undoubtedly
2007-12-26 02:44:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋