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The Hebrew scriptures do not offer reliable historical accounts of early times, but they present memories and interpretations of Hebrew experience from the perspectives of later religious leaders who collected oral reports and edited them into a body of writings after 800 B.C.E.
查了一下，这句话在2007年的汉译本里没有，是早期英文版（ 修订第三版 ）本来欠缺，还是因为有毁谤圣典嫌疑被删除？