Excellent point, I would suggest that most other English versions are pretty whacked too, being xlated by “believers,” but thankfully we have online lexicons now. “Lord” is an English landholder (thief, basically) of course, prolly closer to “Baal” than “God,” but simple force of use has distorted even our ability to discern there i guess

"Noo ne was actually killed in the bible"...Judith never cut off a head? The Israelites never massacred Cannaanites? Gawd never killed Job's entire first family, including children? Aaand etc etc etc. Maybe you should read the thing......

@AnneWimsey well, so bam go with that then, Anne, you can def read literally, just like believers do, if you like! [biblicalhistoricalcontext.com]

I’m only suggesting that they are speaking in symbols, “cutting off a head” (of a general, no less; iow the one whose head is cut off’s intentions are always well-defined) being one of them, and that a deeper meaning might be derived from reading as mythology; I guess Jericho will still have no walls nonetheless, and you won’t be able to populate 1st C Nazareth, but after all i am guessing too, ok. Based upon fifty years of study, but meh

how is it you did not know I was not talking about bread?

but certainly Jude may have literally cut off a general’s head too i guess, why not; his name would surely not have been “Holophernes” though, why not use his real (probable) name, Nicanor (Nadin, Nadab) Why use “Nebuchadnezzar” for Antiochus, when they weren’t even in the same era?

So, i understand it can get pretty confusing, but ppl generally abandon a literal reading pretty quickly simply bc it raises more questions than it answers?

I’m impressed. Thanks for sharing.

@HLMenckenFan No need to be "impressed" since that is how at least 60-70% of Atheists become Atheists.
I.e. they read the babble (bible), a thing colloquially known as the "Bull-shit" alarm sounds inside their heads sounds and they begin to realize and understand that it IS nothing MORE than Garbage.