Do you read the Bible much?

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Commentaries are always helpful when trying to study the Bible, understanding the context, as well as grappling with the translation of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Jerome Biblical Commentary is excellent and used across the board. If you really want to delve into the text, the Anchor Bible Commentary Series is top of the line. How many volumes is it? Well over 100, I believe. You need a library to access it but it is well worth it. I have known scholars who have contributed to it, and it is the best we have.
 
Leviticus chapter 8 verse 23 is interesting -

I have heard it said , when blessing yourself , with Holy oil -
You touch the tip of your right ear -
Also, your right thumb -
Then, believe it or not , your big toe on your right foot -
I do this … at night …(when I remember)…

In Leviticus- it’s ram’s blood. A form of consecration.
I was surprised to read that.
 
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Leviticus chapter 8 verse 23 is interesting -
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ALL of Leviticus is interesting. It’s basically a Priest’s manual for Temple ritual. Add the Holiness Code to that (Chapters 17-26) and you have an absolutely fascinating part of Jewish worship and behavior.
 
Most of my reading these days comes from my reading of the Divine Office. However, I’ve been reading the gospels on their own more and more lately.
 
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The Jerome Biblical Commentary - although seemingly a huge work, contains falsity,
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I must assume, then, that you are more qualified to speak on this than the esteemed Raymond Brown? Sorry, my friend, but while your opinion is noted, I shall carry on as before. 🙂
 
i never “read” the bible
i think it is more important to attend Mass & receive the sacraments

we are not supposed to be privately interpreting Scripture

that is what the Magesterium is all about
 
I try to read the Bible from one end to the other. I don’t try to read it in one sitting. I try to read a little bit every day.
 
When something seems like a mountain to climb… break it down into smaller pieces. Perhaps start with today’s readings, or even just one of them, then read the Catholic commentary about it to explain what is meant. If you find some cross references to other biblical passages, read those, too… this will eventually piece together all the different sections and start to make more sense.
 
More concerned about the difference between truthful and false content. It contains an error. Because of it, I have abandoned the book.
 
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I’m not overly concerned with whomsoever is apparently ‘esteemed’. More concerned about the difference between truthful and false content. It contains Modernist error within.
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Can you give an example of some of his ‘errors’? Raymond Brown is one of our finest Biblical scholars.
 
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Hi. Thank you for asking. I am not going against individuals. An error exists.
 
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I’m sorry, but I am not following you or the points you are making. Could you please give me some citations?
 
There is a time and a place. Rethought the action of putting my doubts up in public, online. There will be correct channels through which one should go when asserting ‘opposition’.
 
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GENESIS is my nemesis. Geneology was never my forte! And pronouncing those names! And who begot who! But I tried several times! Otherwise, I have read THE BIBLE from cover to cover several times over.
 
I have to say that the Moses books of the Bible contain so much repetition that they got very dull after a while. The actual story of Moses is great, but when you read it once, then read it all over again every time somebody recounts a story to the people, it gets a bit much.

Also, after about the 10th time the Israelites start worshipping other Gods and then get killed or conquered by some other nation, you begin to wonder just how stupid people can be that they didn’t get the message the first 9 times.
 
I try to read the Bible daily before going to sleep, in the evenings.
 
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The repetition that I find difficult to get past, is the lineage. The repetition can go on for a long time. But to the Hebrews, this would have meant something, possibly very special.

I love the repetition, apart from the lineage (for aforementioned reasons). I was once told that the accounts were passed down, via the oral tradition. And it can come to mind, that people gathering around a fire, telling the history of their people, would have relied on the form of repetition.
 
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