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Me too. I'd gladly pay for a Chronicles compilation or lore compilation in some eformat.

It wouldn't need to be a single large book either -

Maybe two or three books (or even more if the Scriptures get fleshed out fully) as a small series would work, lessen the amount of writing needing to be done at once, and give people some more impressive appearance on peoples book cases.

And maybe have Quafe available again...

I was under the impression that "The Scriptures" were... rather large.

In that, during an event some years ago, involving the Order of Saint Tetrimon, it took several Bestowers to move some original printings of some Scriptural works.

several thousand cubic metres.

Yes there are waaaay too many texts to put it into one physical Book.
Hency my idea about Jamyl Sarum or more likely the Theology Council releasing one Book that will be looked at as the basics of the Scriptures that count for everyone in their Empire.
Since there are so many texts about the Scriptures, that basic work would logically also have a very huge volume. Therfore I wouldn't be entierly happy with only a 300 Page Scripture Book. Such a small volume, even if it's just the basics, would just not make sense.

Further study could then only be done via future Chronicles and future Novels.

You know I was actually thinking about this and a thought occured to me (no, not given by God, hehe):

Since the whole EVE Lore is (solely) based in the Future of (most likely) our current Reality, it would only make sense if knowledge of the Bible would have passed down for Generations. The people now known as Amarrians have basically been Terrans (as any other EVE Race) when the EVE Gate collapsed.
The millenias after that collapse must have been really terrible. So the ones that became later known as Amarrians probably clinged to the Bible in order to not lose faith and hope in that harsh times. As it usualy goes, different Preachers go for different approaches over time and so the stories even alter or new ones get added.

So... following that thought it would actually be quite possible that some of the Tales and Stories we know from the Bible would have endured the time and could be found in the one or other form in the Scriptures.

Any thoughts on that?

Sure: The bible is based on religious literature far older than itself: The Enuma Elish for example. Still, the stories have been extensively reworked and got re-interpreted in a way that gives them a massage that is quite distinct from the older tales they are based upon to the point that the massage that is conveyed has virtually nothing to do with the original massage of these stories.

Second, whatever holy texts the conformists - the group that later should come to be known as the Amarr - had with them those were reworked and revised by their prophet Dano Gheinok. Since then, practically, if not even before that time, there have been additions, revisions and re-workings of the Scriptures. Such a constant revision of a holy text is nothing out of the order: It happened also with the Bible.

So, I think it is quite improbable to find something that is word-for-word found in the Bible today. So, next to using the biblical material like that being probably offensive, it's also highly implausible to do that.

P.S.: There are four books that are, as far as PF is available by now, four books in the scriptures that "form the basis of the Amarr religion and are thus considered the most important by the Amarr." (See the Article on Dano Gheinok) Book I, Book II, the Book of Gheinok the First (those three apparently originated by the first prophet) and the Book of Reclaiming. 4 biblical books aren't that many pages: The five books of mose or the Torah is in my nice luxury edition of the Bible roughly 150 sides.

Go pick up the Epic of Gilgamesh and see how much of it you recognize. This came out of Sumerian culture some four thousand, five hundred years ago, and predates the Old Testament. See how closely the modern culture aligns to this. Honestly, Christianity five centuries ago would be all but unrecognizable as Christianity today, other than using all the right key words. There is all sorts of stuff that people ignore out of the bible now because it is so alien to anything we experience. The church itself has changed dramatically in just the recent century or two.
The cultures of New Eden have been around for twenty thousand years. Even if the connection to the bible existed, it would be completely meaningless. It's hard to even comprehend how much time that is. New Eden could have gone from stone age to advanced civilization five times in that period of time, withered to dust, and had long enough for the evidence of their passing to all but vanish each time. The Joves are a johnny-come-lately. It's hard to grasp the sense of human history right now, when we only know about around five thousand years of it, and New Eden had four times that post eve gate.
Not only is the current versions of the bible almost certainly gone, but no historians even know what it might have looked like. If they found one, they would have to get a linguist to try to figure out what even the letters were to try to translate it. Amarr would find the Bible's pro-slavery stance to be a reassurance in the righteousness of their cause, but the message itself would not really resonate with the faithful.

Hmmm

So let me get this straight, you want the gold plated version of the book of reclaiming?

Yes, that answers my question. Do you have any links to said scriptures?

I only ask because 150 years after the first great reclaiming, the Scriptures were purged of those passages deemed to be apocryphal to the true faith and a vicious campaign against heterodoxy launched, effectively rebooting the official church as an institution controlled and shaped directly by the will of the Council.

Seems to me that Book of Reclaiming and it's message of IS the Theology Council's "core" version that counts for all Amarrians as the standard of the Scriptures that you are looking for.

Yes. Thankyou. I've seen this page. It's a shame it's not dated

You wanted more spiritual food than these little snippets can provide, didn't you? There is a lot of good player created/researched content in the world, if you're skilled at reading without your eyes.

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Ken/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_New_Eden_v0.91.pdf