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Then there came to be questions about whether the scenes, the stories in the book, actually did happen to him.
于是问题出现了，书里的那些情节和故事是否真正在他身上发生过。
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The legends, just stories from generation to generation, changed, and molded, but nonetheless, retaining certain elements of the earlier tradition.
那些传奇,仅仅是一些代代相传的故事,它们被改编,被扭曲,尽管这样,仍保留了一些早期的传统元素
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They're not stories about pious people whose actions are always exemplary and whose lives should be models for our own, despite what Sunday School curricula will often turn them into.
不是讲那些应该拿来做榜样的,圣人的典范故事,只有主日学校会把他们讲成那样。
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This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.
这是一个关于会活动的，机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗？,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。
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And it became common to reject any ancient story that wasn't really nailed down very, very firmly by some device.
越来越多的人开始不相信那些远古的故事,因为它们没有确凿的证据和可靠的说法
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It's very common to find stories of the extraordinary events that surround the birth of someone who will later become great: Cyrus of Persia, Oedipus, Jesus, and so on.
经常有关于非同寻常事件的故事,围绕着那些后来很伟大的人们的出生：,如波斯的赛勒斯，俄狄浦斯，耶酥等等。
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They're not an account of the divine, which is what theology means,an account of the divine.
这些故事无关神性，和那些神学中所指的，对预言的阐述。
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Myth is a term we use to refer to a traditional story.
我们经常用杜撰故事来讲那些传统事件。
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If they're all fighting in this hoplite style, how do all of these great Greek military personas develop, who are famed for being such wonderful, individual soldiers, if there's no real hand-to-hand, one-on-one?
如果战斗都是以方阵的形式进行,而没有单挑形式的战斗的话,那么,那些希腊故事中,因骁勇善战而著称的个人英雄是怎么产生的呢
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The patriarchal stories are clearly not the work of the Deuteronomist, and these stories must have had very longstanding traditional authority if they were adopted without serious modification by the Deuteronomist redactor some modification, but not serious.
那些宗法故事显然不是预言师的作品，这些故事必然经过了传统权威的检验,如果他们是未经更改直接引用的话,由那些预言编写者,这里有一些改动，但不是太多。
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That was a story that surely was near and dear to the hearts of Many ancient Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern listeners, so all the elements are there for the retelling of that story.
这个故事必然对一些人来说亲近又珍贵,对那些古代以色列和近东的听众，那就具备了复述故事的一切要素。
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In fact, in one of the stories, the gods say, "Oh, people, they're so noisy, I can't sleep."
在一个故事中，那些神居然说，“哦，那些人呐，实在太吵了，我都睡不着觉了”
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They drew upon these sources but they blended and shaped them in a particular way.
他们源于那些原有的故事,又以特定的方式来加工塑造它们。
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