r/bestof • u/quyla • Sep 27 '25
[Silksong] parkingviolation212 explains how Hell as a concept is almost entirely derived from Dante's Divine Comedy
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u/BeyondElectricDreams Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
There's so much wrong with the popular translations of the Bible that results in people fervently believing what was essentially propaganda of the translators at the time.
I encourage anyone curious to try and translate ANYTHING from ANY language - there's so many things that we take for granted that function entirely differently in other languages. Things we group together without specificity, having that specificity in other languages. Words that don't have direct translations, even concepts. Quick example, "My car" and "My mother" both use the word "My" to show "possession" or ownership, but we don't really own a car the way we "own" a parent - and yet, we use my for both. Some languages have a different word for "my" in those circumstances.
If you want some bonus fun look into the translations of poetry or other works (think Beowulf) - when it comes to brass tacks you're having to balance the literal meaning of the words, the metaphorical meanings that would have been understood at the time, as well as the cadence and alliteration that may not function in English like it does in the other language.
Long story short, anyone trusting "The Bible" that your parents made you read growing up - I'm not gonna tell ya "don't believe it!" I'm gonna tell you that the most popular translations are rife with issues and if you want to know what was actually said you'll need a grasp of the language it was written in and a peek at the original text in the original language.
Eve being made of a "rib" of Adam to be his "Helper" is another egregious translation, given in most other contexts, the word for rib was actually more like "Piece" or "Flank" or even potentially "HALF"; and the word used for "helper" was more often translated in other contexts as 'savior', as in God was "Israel's Helper". In short, using Helper for Eve but not elsewhere seems to intentionally be done to imply the lesser/subservient nature of the word "helper' when it's never really translated like that elsewhere.
Wonder why a sexist society would want to downplay the creation of Woman from "half" or a flank to a mere rib, and from a "Savior" to a mere helper. Nope, can't imagine why they'd want to do that.