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authorMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2023-01-14 09:47:23 +0100
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@@ -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