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Deuterocanonical Friday: Judith 3

It is probably appropriate that so far in the story the Judeans have been downplayed as weak, as just one among many powers that are among many. For the glory of God, and the history of Judaism, is about unexpected strength from weakness, of advance through submission. Symbolic of this, we have not yet even [...]
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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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