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End of "Deuteronomy"

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nations more numerous and mightier than you. In earlier biblical accounts, the almost preternatural numerical growth of the Hebrew people is stressed. In the historical reality of the later seventh and sixth centuries B.C.E., a writer would have been keenly aware that Israel was a tiny nation surrounded by large and powerful peoples.

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End of "Numbers"

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[...] It is striking that an inscription on plaster, probably composed in the eighth century B.C.E., discovered in 1967 at Deir 'Alla, in this same region, about fifteen kilometers east of the Jordan River, speaks of a powerful soothsayer and seer named Balaam son of [...] Beor. [...]

(557)

End of "Leviticus"

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[...] And he shall put lots on the two goats, one for the LORD and one for Azazel. [...]

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[...] Thus, Aaron and his surviving sons, immediately after the death of Nadab and Abihu, are warned never to come into the sanctuary when they have drunk "[w]ine and strong drink", for in the view of the Priestly writers, authorized ritual is in all respects the exact opposite of ecstatic orgy (another departure in principle from the pagan world as it was imagined by Israelite writers). [...]

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[The flax and the barley are destroyed in every other edition I searched]

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[So far, the best discussion/commentary about the name YHWH]

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End of "Genesis"

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