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  • P [email protected]

    "The lord has given unto you these 15 —"

    crash

    "... 10 commandments!"

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    There are in fact 21 listed Commandments btw

    The first eleven (which it says are ten) listed in Exodus are different from the ones commonly repeated from Deuteronomy and are mostly about ensuring the comfort and power of the priest class through tithing

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    • R [email protected]

      He most likely wasn't a carpenter at all, the Greek just says 'builder'. Probably a stone mason

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      That explains the awful table.

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        Actual Right End: that's not what you'd refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you're an idiot

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        I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it

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        • B [email protected]

          What's like the coolest, most impressive literary book you can think of? But it has to be something most idiots will recognize.

          I don't know, The Iliad?

          Awesome. I need a rare book for this screenplay I'm writing. "First edition, signed copy..."

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          This is an AI style blunder.

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          • F [email protected]

            I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it

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            Which Pope?

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            • H [email protected]

              Rare texts are kinda my jam, a few highlights in my collection:

              • A signed first edition of the Necronomicon (it still screams and bleeds)

              • An early draft of the 10 commandments (before it got narrowed down to just 10)

              • The treatise between cats and dogs that lead to cats getting litter boxes and dogs getting walks

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              FYI, a treatise is not the same as a treaty.

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                Actual Right End: that's not what you'd refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you're an idiot

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                Further right of the bell curve than you just to win the silly semantics game you're playing: if you're calling it "The Illiad" and not "Ἰλιάς" you are defacto referring to the book titled "The Illiad" which is the English translation which indeed had a much more recent publication date than the original work.

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                  I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it

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                  op said first edition, not signed

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                  • underpantsweevil@lemmy.worldU [email protected]

                    Technically, he doesn't invent them. He's just riding the trend.

                    Also, probably the best scene in that movie.

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                    A bit more nuanced then I remembered.

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                    • B [email protected]

                      Which Pope?

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                      Original Author

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                        op said first edition, not signed

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                        They just a word

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                          I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it

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                          Or which edition it is.

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                            op said first edition, not signed

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                            Ok, pick a scroll any scroll

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                              FYI, a treatise is not the same as a treaty.

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                              Don’t tell them that

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                                • W [email protected]

                                  If anybody's wondering... (Youtube link)

                                  Also, ooof. Not that this looks to be a fine piece of cinema, but the writer didn't put this into the script, the director did. Apparently it's an 1884 printing of an 1853 edition of a 1720 translation (Pope's), so in no way whatsoever is it first edition of, well, anything. Maybe the worst part of it is that there was absolutely no reason to linger over the title. They never even say the name of the book.

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                                  The description says "psychological thriller", but the cinematography is giving me "Netflix romcom".

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                                    Glasses make you more clever. This is why I wear a higher prescription than I actually need.

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                                      Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

                                      Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece

                                      Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

                                      (The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)

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                                      She obviously meant the first edition Penguin classics paperback.

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                                      • B [email protected]

                                        Which Pope?

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                                        Alexander Pope.

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                                        • R [email protected]

                                          FYI, a treatise is not the same as a treaty.

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                                          It was a long time ago and they were just guessing at what written language was even going to look like. That they got it in perfect English minus one word is remarkable.

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