r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 5d ago

Religious leader wants to display Indian scriptures in Louisiana public classrooms

https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/religious-leader-wants-to-display-indian-scriptures-in-louisiana-public-classrooms/
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u/BringBackApollo2023 5d ago

Put them all up in the original languages. No English translations allowed.

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u/Lokarin 5d ago

Why aren't the 10 commandments in Greek (or whatever moses wrote in... Cuneiform Script B maybe?)

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u/trampolinebears 5d ago

Hebrew is what the 10 Commandments are written in. Given when they were most likely composed, Hebrew is probably their original language.

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u/questions0124j1 4d ago

Just to be a bit specific, the original language is biblical Hebrew- very similar to Hebrew, but it's like calling "Old English" the same as modern English. Even people in Israel who natively speak Hebrew, have to learn to read the Torah's version of Hebrew, and even some parts in Aramaic.