Reading of religious texts
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Why Catholic and Protestant Bibles contain a different number of books
Why sacred texts are chanted rather than read silently
Once a myth is written down the priests lose the right to vary it
Reading a sacred text aloud in a language the congregation no longer speaks
Manuscript copying traditions and the fear of changing a single letter
Fixed reading cycles that take a whole year to get through a text
How children learn to recite scripture before they can explain it
The rules about who may touch or handle a sacred book
Why a new translation of scripture can split a community
What gets lost when a scripture is translated into everyday language
Commentary traditions and why believers rarely read a sacred text alone
Studying scripture in small groups versus hearing it read in a service
The allegorical language of alchemical texts and how scholars decoded it
Memorizing an entire scripture and what that does to how it is understood
How a sacred language becomes a barrier to the next generation
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