Jew adjacent checking in
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Are there any Really Good English translations of the Torah that treat it more uh "objectively"/authentically?
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honestly i've never looked and would love to know the answer to this question
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it's pretty hacky editing too. I think they left it intentionally obvious specifically as a combination loyalty and IQ test. my father studied to be a rabbi in Jerusalem (and dropped out) and discovered while doing so that literally ALL of them knew but were instructed to deny it
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oh hey i now recall i had a fun moment with that with my teacher, he said something about the oral Torah (which any fool can look at the text structure and see predated the written Torah), then he got verklemmt as his doctrinal circuit stomped on his scholarly circuit
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mumbled something about how we're not supposed to talk about that
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he definitely loved my punk ass subversive reading, would tell me that asking these questions was the ratzon ha-ra in me in the most approving possible tones
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the most fun moments were smacking into things i knew of through the gauzy haze of Christian demonology like i'm reading some sentence, and there's this word "ashtarot". in context it's obviously not a name, but i translate "the… Astaroth?"
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Did he know why you were studying Hebrew?
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pretty sure i explicitly said to him "to help me be a better street occultist and pwn Christians in arguments" yeah
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the great thing about a legalistic tradition is that it literally doesn't matter why i want to learn, the mitzvah to teach is the mitzvah to teach
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