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In response to "Because I missed ST Bible Talk, and like it: a non-fiction book that is later proven to not be 100% accurate doesn't suddenly become a work of fiction" by TFox

honestly, I'm not even sure the concept of "fiction" even existed back then, as we know it today.

Posted by znufrii Dec 9 '09, 09:41

for the OT in particular.

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Let me ask you this: Do you think that satire existed back then? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 09:46
Stephen King created fiction! -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 09:43
You're just chock full of stuff like this aren't you? (nm) - musubi Dec 9, 09:43 3
- If bullshit could be burned for power, we would have locked znufrii in a harvesting facility long ago, and ended our dependence on foreign oil. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 09:48 2
  - *and* made him read from the bible. nm - Dignan Dec 9, 09:50
  - you need to lose another bet. -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 09:48
I... wouldn't go that far. People have been making up stories for a long long time. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 09:42 2
- All I'm saying is that the oral traditions of storytelling from which a lot of the OT material derives is quite different than our modern literary - znufrii Dec 9, 09:52 1
  - Are you sure... - TFox Dec 9, 09:53

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