Monday, August 8, 2011

Holy texts and their original languages

Here's my question. So as I understand it, Muslims believe that to truly understand the Koran it must be read in the original Arabic, and likewise, Jews believe the same about the Torah and Hebrew. So why is it that Christianity is like the only religion where people don't bother to learn the bible in it's original language(s)? As I understand it the main languages that the Bible was originally written in are Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. There may be some Aramaic in there too, not sure. But my question is why is it that devout Muslims and Jews go out of their way to learn the original languages of their respective holy texts, but for most Christians, it's too much of a bother?

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