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Exodus:3/10. Half of it is an interesting account of the Israelites’ escape from Egypt. Its central flaw is the repeated claim that the Lord ‘hardens Pharaoh’s heart’, rather than letting Pharaoh be obstinate. This casts God as an omnipotent orchestrator — but renders it a (morally troubling) contrivance. The other half is a meticulous account of rituals/sacred objects. Religiously significant; narratively abysmal.

— May 05, 2025 12:45AM

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Genesis - 8/10.

The Bible's first book delivers many of its most iconic moments in rapid succession: creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, its momentum is frequently stalled by exhaustive genealogies, which—while perhaps religiously significant—contribute little to the narrative, and by abrupt and disorienting shifts in location.

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