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I'm NOT an expert in the #HebrewBible /Old Testament. (My PhD is in something else.) But I love textual criticism. That makes me an amateur. Abbr.: MT= Masoretic Text SamP= Samaritan Pentateuch OG= Old Greek Pesh(itta) Vulg(ate) Tg= Targums DSS= Qumran
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Okay, just when I finally post about SamP's דבר corresponding to MT's אמר, I come across Exodus 9:1 which has the reverse correspondence...

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Comparing the SamP with MT systematically, I think I am seeing a nearly consistently different use of waw in lists, and in Exodus, several places where SamP's דבר corresponds to MT's אמר, oddly. Anyone know of scholarship on these? #HebrewBible#TextualCriticism#SamaritanPentateuch

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it really is not an exaggeration in the slightest to say that the trump vance plan for reducing housing costs is ethnic cleansing

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You're right in general, but in this particular case, the same "undecided voter" complained elsewhere in the WaPo piece that she lost medical insurance under Biden but not under Trump, which may explain leaning towards voting for Trump while preferring Harris's view on women's healthcare.

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This is a war of choice. The horror of the attacks on 7 October did not and do not merit bombing Gaza into the Stone Age. The horror of the attacks on 7 October did not and do not merit invading Lebanon.
In this country we have seen "the right to self-defense" used as an excuse to murder black women, children and men. Israel has the right to exist and the right to defend itself. It does not have the right to exterminate Arab populations on its contested borders or, to seize their land. 
If there is to be peace between the state of Israel and the surrounding nation states, there must be a self governing Palestinian state with contiguous borders. Some of that land will have to come from what is now claimed by Israel, including but not necessarily limited to the land under illegal settlements. 
And while the state of Israel is an established reality that is not going anywhere, the nature of its founding and the method of its founding must be revisited in something like a truth and reconci
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Silly, they only believe in redemption for (their brand of) Christians! The president's son just isn't relevant unless he gets saved in a Southern Baptist church.

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Such a small letter shifts the narrative about who said this, changing the speaker from Joseph to God himself! 3/3

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MT: "He sent his brothers away and they went, and *he* said *to them,* 'Do not get angry on the journey.'" SamP: "He sent his brothers away and they went, and *God* said, 'Do not get angry on the journey.'" Adding a yod transforms "to them" into "God," which then replaces the implicit subject. 2/

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I'm amused by a textual variation in #Genesis#HebrewBible#TextualCriticism

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Happy birthday from a totally random internet stranger!

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I'm NOT an expert in the #HebrewBible /Old Testament. (My PhD is in something else.) But I love textual criticism. That makes me an amateur. Abbr.: MT= Masoretic Text SamP= Samaritan Pentateuch OG= Old Greek Pesh(itta) Vulg(ate) Tg= Targums DSS= Qumran
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