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Deuterocanonical Friday

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1134, 6th May, 2011
Why didn’t I put an exclamation point in the title like yesterday’s? Either (1) studying the deuterocanonical books is so obviously appealing that the exclamation mark is unneeded, (2) I figured I couldn’t fool you twice after yesterday’s incident in which I started a post with an exclamation point and then began it with a [...]
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what eved-melek means to me

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1543, 5th April, 2010
When I was a little boy I had a little Bible book of cartoon pictures, a far more complete Bible than many children’s Bibles–if I remember right it even included the book of Hosea.  Serious children’s Bible.  Everyone did, however, look suspiciously European in skin tone. Except for Eved Melek.  Eved Melek was black, and [...]
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