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Talk about derivative works: Hillel said "What thou dost not like, do thou not to they neighbor. That is the whole law; all the rest is explanation. (Sabbath, 31:1)
The Chronicles of Narnia helped me stop speaking gibberish for fear of accidently speaking the Dplorable Word...that and a taste for Turkish Delight.
dkw12002 2 years ago
It depends on what power you are speaking of. Certainly it loses it's mystical aspects in the Jefferson Bible, and to many believers that IS the essential part, so essential to theists that they have bastardized the literary value of the King James Bible, morphing it into the NIV in order to clarify (or alter) the religious meaning. For someone who is not religious, there might be some value and interest in seeing a Cliff's notes version of the morality as taught by Jesus. "The Bible in 5 min."
dkw12002 2 years ago
I'm all for derivative works ^_^
My point was much like the condensed version of the Iliad loses something in the condensing so might the bible. Personally I bypass it altogether as the derivative works often value add better than the bible does anyhow. I am shamed to admit I gained more from the Narnia series (a derivative work if ever I saw one) than I did from the bible.
I also avoid putting Jesus on too much of a pedestal. Not all his message was so benign and there is better out there.
thorungal 2 years ago
The Jefferson Bible takes the bible out of the genre of mythology and places it into the genre of historical fiction (minus footnotes). Now if someone were to go a step further and list the moral precepts of Jesus such as "turn the other cheek", "blessed are the peacemakers", "do unto others", you would be left with a pamphlet-sized bible mostly from the Sermon on the Mount, and none of it originial. The best philosophy in the bible, IMO, the Golden Rule, was said by Confucius 500 years earlier.
dkw12002 2 years ago
As with all holy books the Bible borrows from human nature, the good and the bad. However I disagree withe the notion of distilling the bible down to it's bare essentials like that. Much like fiction today the lessons are made more powerful my the intermingling of narrative. The Bible is first and foremost literature so to summarize it in this way would be to lose it's power.
thorungal 2 years ago