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End of "Judges"

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5:1–31 The Song of Deborah. Thought to be the oldest extended composition in the Bible (twelfth century B.C.E., according to some), this often obscure poem belongs to a genre of victory hymn common in Egypt and Assyria. […]

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End of "Joshua"

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End of "Deuteronomy"

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[32:42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

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End of "Numbers"

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End of "Leviticus"

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13:1–14:57 Skin rot ("leprosy") and mildew. The Hebrew word tsara'at, formerly translated "leprosy", has no exact equivalent in English. It is used to refer to several different ailments, none of which is technically leprosy. (What we call leprosy or Hansen's disease was probably unknown in the biblical world before the time of Alexander the Great.)

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[...] It should be emphasized that the distinctions have nothing to do with health or hygiene; "clean" and "unclean" are socioreligious terms that in this instance correspond to regular and anomalous. [...]

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End of "Exodus"

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20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: the fifth commandment provides a bridge to the universal laws of the second table; it is the only commandment that contains no negative component, the last to mention the name of God, and the only one that promises a reward; [...].

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End of "Genesis"

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27:39 The fatness ... the dew: rather "away from the fatness ... away from the dew" — the same Hebrew preposition (mi) used in the blessing of Jacob (v. 28), where it has the meaning "of".

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5:5 All the days ... and he died: Adam lives to see eight generations of descendants; the first man born after his death is Noah (the "second Adam").

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[End of Preface etc.]

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Samuel Johnson, the greatest of literary commentators, observed in the Preface to his edition of Shakespeare that we "delight more in what we find or make, than in what we receive" and urged his readers to begin directly with the plays before turning to the notes. [...]

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[...] a Renaissance English translation that, for all its rhetorical splendor, contains obsolete vocabulary and diction, a significant number of mistranslations, and, in the case of the Old Testament, a tendency toward Christological readings that distorts the meaning of the Hebrew. [...]

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