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The Problem with Paronomasia
Another source of ambiguity lies in the fact that early Middle Eastern languages leant heavily on paronomasia to give variety to simple phrases - a form of punning which allowed several different meanings to be given to a single set of symbols. In speech, it is probable that slight inflections of tone differentiated between meanings, but in the written word there is no such indication to help us; and modern students of the Bible, like their predecessors, have to guess at the meanings of many words from the angle of their own preconceived notions of the context.
In all three of the basic, ancient Middle Eastern languages -Hebrew, Sumerian and Babylonian - a scholar with a secular bias would produce a different translation of the same text from that produced by a scholar with a religious bias. This may be very easily illustrated.
The quintessence of the first five chapters of the Book of Genesis may be summarized in four well-known quotations:
GEN 1: 1 'In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.'
1: 26 'God said, "Let us make man in our image, in the likeness of ourselves . . ."
2: 8 'Yahweh God planted a Garden in Eden which is in the east... '
5: 24 'Enoch walked with God. Then he vanished because God took him.'
These four widely-used quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, first published in 1966 from deeply researched and modernized translations by the Dominican Biblical School in Jerusalem. We consider this magnificent work to be the most authorative and scholarly of all the modern translations . . . and yet these simple phrases, which hold the fundamentals of present-day Jewish and Christian teaching, are beset with traps of which the average Church member knows nothing. We shall open our bag of doubts by discussing three of them.
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"Evidently, Talmudism is not confined to Judaic orthodoxies, indeed it has infiltrated the three Abrahamic faiths to the core. It is an arcane ideology that is at war with modern Universalist principles, the very principles that if practiced, would naturally lead to peaceful unification instead of the violent segregation of humanity.
Talmudists, be they Jewish, Christian or Muslim should really all be viewed as members of a single cult. They have everything and more in common with each other andn they are currently all participating in steering the world into senseless, cataclysmic warfare."
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There's a reason that 'Eden' isn't well known, same with its source document, this Talmud.
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"One would think that religious literature so centrally important to one of the world's great religions would be easily located in local libraries, It is certainly easy to find the Bible or Koran.
Not so the Talmud. While the very largest municipal libraries in a state may possess the Talmud and Zohar, they are almost always absent elsewhere, except in synagogues. In almost every synagogue in the world, the Talmud and Zohar loom above every other piece of literature in authority and appreciation.
Why are library shelves vacant of the Talmud and Zohar? Quite simply, it's because Judaism teaches that the law they contain was given to Jews alone and it's wrong for Gentiles to read that law. The Talmud says, "The goy who pries into the law is worthy of death."
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Accordingly, Jewish leaders make it clear to Christian seminaries and scholars that they will not tolerate published research into the Talmud's real teachings about Christ, Christianity, and Gentiles. Christian academics obey, terrified of being smeared as "anti-Semites."
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On my first visit [Judaic section of Library of Congress], I asked the Jewish librarian where to find the Soncino English translation He became disturbed and replied, "I don't think you want to read that. You might misunderstand it." I couldn't believe my ears....
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"In spite of the centrality of the Talmud to Judaism, I doubt if more than 10% of Jews have read any part of it. These articles are as informative to most Jews as to non-Jews. This article is significant because the Illuminati engage in incest, pedophilia, and bestiality. Is the Talmud their guide? Is this why this behavior is being mainstreamed?
Verbatim quotations from the Soncino Edition of the Talmud are required to illustrate the enormity of the Talmud's iniquity....
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The world's leading authorities on the Talmud confirm that the official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud translated into English follows the original texts with great exactness....
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Then some quotes on pederasty are given, as are marriage to 'maidens' at least 3years and a day, and so on.... like "there is not adultery in connection with an animal..."
Get the picture? Is it any wonder such readings from the Talmud, "one of the wonders of the world" aren't exactly encouraged by those that might 'misunderstand'?