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Major Nikon

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1. Pretty much the entirety of the bible is based on oral tradition

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Aug 2, 2019, 09:15 AM

Aug 2019

In the case of the Hebrew bible the stories floated around for centuries if not millennia before being written down. Now consider how the average office rumor changes over the course of a week.

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