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Gelobt seist du, Niemand Currently studying Bible, Hebrew and Rabbinic lit https://simonereadstexts.substack.com/
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need to try and sleep. here’s robin blaser (the first poem in the holy forest)

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this review is incredible both as an excruciating unraveling of non-argument *and* as an example of both how to write a good review of a bad book, and how to do so without being universally negative

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This was actually a really nice remix but christ how is this 5 years old now???? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgh...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

there is something significant to learn from the fact that the named party here has a tattoo saying "Deus Vult" and has on multiple occasions accused other Christians of being moral relativists.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A beautiful initial-word panel marks the beginning of Torah portion Yitro (יִתְרוֹ). #ParashahPictures BL Add MS 15423; Pentateuch; 1441-1467 CE; Italy (Florence); f.47v

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it's a very "we know, you're not american" thing to say but American culture, where people are like "did you see that commercial, it was really good" is bizarre

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Superb Owl from the Princeton University Art Museum. Horned Owl on Flowering Branch by Kubo Shunman 窪俊満 (1757–1820) artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...

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Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Playing a little game called "Paradoilia or Portent" while admiring my Tetris-like book shelving habits

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submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I was watching a lecture the other night on the idea of myth as like, a cultural vocabulary of narratives and the speaker used WWII as an example of something that was mythologized within decades and, while reading a bunch of primary documentation from the 30s this has v much stuck with me

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I initially thought "hey I don't mind them thaaaat much" but then realised the true scam: they're a ploy to get you to buy hardbacks, so you can use the back flap of the jacket to keep your place in the notes

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

the counterpoint of this is that the absolute disappears into relativism when push comes to show and everyone assumes everyone else is just as self-interested and broadly dishonest as they are - truth becomes equivalent to that brute assertion, and so functionally equivalent to power...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

kinda have a vibe that what we're seeing is, in multiple senses, the consequences of thinking that one can brutely impose an abstract value on the world without mediation the desire for that unites the actors across purportedly irreconcilable differences, the mess is the result of that

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I think this is extremely relevant rn

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

this is nuts, what the hell

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is a very good point as a corollary to many of the most rigorous reconstructions of the origins of the Rabbinic movement concluding that the commonplace that the Rabbis are basically just a continuation of the Pharisees is, at best, an oversimplification

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