Doesn't the Rule of Ben edict also suggest that Kings not be read by the
younger monks?
Graham Williamson-Mallaghan wrote:
> >Watson does not mention any earlier complete excisions.
>
> The Bowdlerisation of the Song of Songs (and what a great
> way to get any healthy adolecent to go off and read the
> thing) is reminiscent of Ulfilas' Gothic Bible, of the mid
> C4th. Ulfilas entirely left out the Book of Kings, on the
> grounds that the Goths already had sufficient experience of
> both kings and warfare, and neither were to be encouraged
> in peoples becoming a serious danger to the Romans.
>
> What other examples of late antique and medieval (or later)
> Biblical censorship can anyone send into the list?
>
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