as an aside, it's interesting to watch the local antisemite approach the talmud the way that evangelicals approach their bible namely, by pulling random badly-translated quotes out of context and then pondering "their inner meaning" or whatever
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This, of course, did not actually happen, because every individual Christian spending their life studying the Bible and deciding what it means on their own, aspirational an ideal as it may be, is not practical
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Yeah. But it did largely mean that anyone who *wanted* to could, it just turned out that not many people really wanted to.
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This is an area where my wife — who was a medieval historian by training and education — grouses a LOT. The Catholic Church may have been authoritarian on the interpretation of the Bible but they also were honest researchers and historians.
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It wasn't just "the Bible is this because we say so", it was centuries of "Ok, you're going to learn to read in the original languages so you can understand the early documents AND understand the context under which this was written if you're going to be a biblical scholar."
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