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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2023-01-14 09:47:23 +0100 |
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committer | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2023-01-14 09:47:23 +0100 |
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diff --git a/faith/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst b/faith/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst index d49020c..4084efb 100644 --- a/faith/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst +++ b/faith/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst @@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ fifty years later as well. For Czech lands we really know almost nothing. Some German chronicles barely mentioned that the area exists, and there are some rumours about Charlemagne going through Bohemia around 805, but that’s basically all we know -about this place in that time. +about this place in that time from the historical record. The only point I want to illustrate by these paragraphs is that year 800 AD is long time ago. Really long time ago. When we have established this point, we can start to work with year 800 AD. First idea is really brief: when we think what -happened eight hundred years ago (1220), we considered such event +happened eight hundred years ago (1222), we considered such event to happen really long time ago, so long time ago, that anything is hardly known about it. Well, Christianity was that old in that year. Because it was long time ago from our point of view, it @@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ However, year 400 BC may be the beginning of the Classical Antiquity, but in the biblical history it is still too late. All canonical history of the Old Testament already happened, Jews were back from the Babylonian captivity, and even the majority of -the Old Testament itself was already written. So, if we want to -get to the beginning of the Biblical time, we need to take our -historical measure and make one more step. 400 BC - 1200 +the Old Testament itself was already written. Therefore, if we +want to get to the beginning of the Biblical time, we need to +take our historical measure and make one more step. 400 BC - 1200 = 1600 BC (exact years, or even centuries, are not that important, chronology of that era is really vague and uncertain). And somewhere there we finally get to the times the Old Testament @@ -179,10 +179,10 @@ of the term bunja’h (completely made-up word just for the purpose of this example). Unfortunately, this word is never ever mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, and we don’t know anything about it even from other ancient Hebrew literature (i.e., it is -*hapax legomenon*). +true *hapax legomenon*). -Imagine Saint Jerome sitting over this text racking his brain -over this verse. In the end he dives into books about the Hebrew +Imagine Saint Jerome sitting over the text racking his brain over +this verse. In the end he dives into books about the Hebrew language, asks neighbouring rabbis for help, and then they conclude that by using languages of other ancient Near East nations it could be said that the word is based on roots of words @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ spread lots or arrows shot in front of the diviner. Another commentaries (NET Bible) claims it is just a generic term for any diviner who predicts future from observing various omens and signs. However, it is obvious it is some kind of divination, -although we are not completely certain how exactly it was done. +although we are not completely certain how exactly it worked. *menakhesh* has complicated meaning. According to some it is just a generic term for any divination by observing signs and omens |