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Amy, there was Hebrew on that page so I figured it had to be authentic. :)
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Gahanna is Hell
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AmyArt21
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JonMyers wrote >>
Amy, there was Hebrew on that page so I figured it had to be authentic. :)I thought it was at first, also - but then I saw something that said "He was pierced for our transgressions".
@myliftkk - Ah, now I see what you're saying. Yeah, it's amazing how much of the "Old Testament" (aka the Hebrew Bible or the Tanakh) is mistranslated from the Hebrew. It went through so many translation before it finally made it to English.
I prefer the JPS translation because it's straight from the Hebrew.Jon's post included info about the Valley of Hinnom - in Hebrew, it's "Gei Ben Hinnom". The contraction of that is "Ge-henom", which somehow morphed in to Gehenna.
Here's an interesting interpretation from the Zohar (Jewish mystical text, aka. Kabbalah): https://www2.kabbalah.com/ru/index.php/p=zohar/zohar&vol=50&sec=1732
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Rockmastermike
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myliftkk
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@amy - Unfortunately, or fortunately, I spent a large portion of my younger years as part of a xian micro-sect (or cult as the government defines them) in which obsessive analysis of differences between translations and originating documents was one of many serious topics of study. Which variation someone preferred even varied within the group (most of them carried around multiple translations at any given time), but quite a few tended to like the diaglott quite a bit for NT translations, which is the greek/english side by side translation, and I don't recall much about the particulars of what OT people preferred. That's sort of neither here nor there, but that's how I know the difference between sheol and gehanna (long before it ever showed up on a wiki somewhere).
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Lakee911
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Talcott wrote >>
Rockmastermike wrote >>
Talcott wrote >>
That's yet another bit of biblical trivia I learned from pretending to be a vampire in college ;-)There's gotta be a really funny story behind that statement
Not so much funny as very, very nerdy.
You didn't used to LARP, did you, Talcott?
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gramarye
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I use Wikipedia shamelessly. As long as you read with a critical eye, it's the easiest-to-use general reference source in the world. I actually think I'd have done well to use it a little more in law school, just to acquire basic familiarity with unfamiliar terms before delving into the more technical material.
I also already knew that about Gehenna/Gahanna; my roommate in undergrad was Orthodox Jewish and laughed about it from time to time. Plus, the term was a canon concept in Vampire: The Masquerade. :-)
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Talcott
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Lakee911 wrote >>
Talcott wrote >>
Rockmastermike wrote >>
Talcott wrote >>
That's yet another bit of biblical trivia I learned from pretending to be a vampire in college ;-)There's gotta be a really funny story behind that statement
Not so much funny as very, very nerdy.
You didn't used to LARP, did you, Talcott?
Nah, I mostly stuck to table-top. I LARPed once, but it didn't really take. Sitting around rolling dice is fun, standing around with your arms crossed to show that you're invisible, not so much.
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