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uriel1972

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20. If your understanding of the text isn't right, the mistranslations are likely to be really, really b

Reply to Igel (Reply #18)

Mon Apr 8, 2019, 02:43 AM

Apr 2019

After so many translations and editions, not to mention time and space, is understanding of the text even possible? Especially by those who don't spend their life learning Aramaic, Archaeology and Anthropology.

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