Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It…

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Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs. ✨ Steven Pinker (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, p.28, Penguin
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