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--- name: The Bible type: document status: running version: "∞.0" released: "~1400 BCE (first commit), canonized ~400 CE" maintainer: various (disputed) dependencies: - oral-tradition - ancient-near-eastern-mythology - faith - institutional-religion - centuries-of-translation license: Public Domain (with contested interpretive forks) tags: - scripture - anthology - historical-document - living-text - most-distributed - frequently-misquoted slug: the-bible ---
A multi-author anthology of poetry, law, history, prophecy, letters, and apocalyptic fiction, compiled across roughly a thousand years, that became the load-bearing document of Western civilization.
The Bible operates as a distributed system. No single canonical binary exists. Instead, it runs on two primary legacy modules:
These modules are then repackaged by denominations, each claiming to ship the authoritative build. Over 450 English translations exist. None agree on everything. All ship with a preface explaining why theirs is the accurate one.
| Bug | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Contradictory creation timelines (Genesis 1 vs 2) | Won't fix | Attributed to genre variance |
| Inconsistent resurrection account details | Open | Four reporters, one event |
| Violent passages cited to justify violence | Chronic | Disputed whether bug or misuse |
| "Lost books" (Enoch, Jubilees, etc.) | Excluded | Canonical disagreement |
| Translation drift | Ongoing | Introduced with every new version |
# Suggested user config
reading_mode: literal | allegorical | historical-critical | devotional
testament_priority: old | new | equal
apocrypha_enabled: true # Catholic, Orthodox builds only
interpretation_authority: self | clergy | community | tradition
"It's the only book where you can find both 'love your enemies' and 'dash their infants against the rocks' and somehow both are in there." — anonymous reader, still processing
Is it one book or many? Both. It is 66 books (Protestant) or 73 (Catholic) or 81 (Ethiopian Orthodox Church) bound as one and shelved as one. It contains multitudes. That is partly the point.
Who wrote it? Dozens of human authors across centuries, plus attribution levels ranging from "divinely dictated" to "community composed" depending on your theology.
Should it be read literally? This question has generated more conflict than most geopolitical disputes. Proceed with humility.