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Craig Nelsen's avatar

I haven't had time yet to read your long essay it's entirety but I'll just note after a quick glance that there are numerous ancient texts that use the format of briefly describing the contents of a chapter in a few short sentences at the beginning, Thomas Aquinas, if I remember correctly, uses that format

Modern Monastery's avatar

Yes, but my point is that it's not just a few sentences. It's an excessively long list of sentences, roughly 30 for both documents.

Craig Nelsen's avatar

I also believe the descriptive sentences were added by a later translator and were not part of the original text