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deuterocanonical friday. i mean, monday.
Due to the ever-erring nature of my frail memory and weaker backbone, Deuterocanonical Friday is running a bit late. So we’ll have it on Monday. I would say that today is Friday in substance but Monday in species, but I suspect that to do so would be to stretch words too far and wade into something [...]
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Deuterocanonical Friday
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
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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Deuterocanonical Friday: Judith 3