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Palm trees and desert

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We Made it Through the Wilderness

figure wrapped in garment with shin, gold jewelry, smoke coming out the top of her head

read this instead

good things for brainmeats and heartbeats

Image of cars driving on a desert highway

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on the road again

Five Black American-appearing women standing in the front yard, could be anytime mid 1970s-1990s, easily

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Tzlofchad's Daughters and the Master's Tools

Balaam blessing the Children of Israel, December 1791 sketch of man standing, arms outstretched

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When We Look to See

woman's hands on an animal's skull in a black and white photo

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Women in the Wilderness

Yellow-orange lithograph of Moses and a lot of israelites with water, naive art/fauvist style.

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The Rock that Broke

Creepy animals and demon people eat people with haloes on their heads

It's The War of Gog and Magog (And I Feel Fine)

What's a little apocalyptic military meltdown among friends

it's a red heifer

The Red Heifer, Christian Zionism, and the Dangers Of Now

How a Holy Cow encapsulates an unholy zealot alliance

sinkhole near the dead sea

The Land Down Under(world)

Some Jewish Perspectives on the Afterlife

Untangling Korach

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Untangling Korach

Give Back Indigenous Property Save Mother Nature Pacha Mama sign, people marching

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In

Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

MAD Magazine's Spy vs Spy except carrying grapes a la Caleb & Joshua

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Spy vs. Spy

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time away

17th c. people looking at, pointing at the central figure in the painting, a woman whose back is bare, hair down

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Whose Truth

Total Eclipse of the 🌞

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Total Eclipse of the 🌞

Illustration of beautiful women with dark Black and lighter Black/Brown skin tones with ancient Egyptian-like styling

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16 Takes On the "Kushite Wife" Verse That Have Nothing To Do With White Supremacy

The musician Victoria Hanna looks up at the camera with the letter––well, in our house we're debating if that's a ס or a ט,

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incantation

Image of Gilgamesh looking giant and muscled and a lion in his arms looking tiny and scared

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Exploring Mythic Tropes

A Black woman with jeans and a tank top and hair in a scarf parts the head of a Black man, whose eyes are closed.

A Defense of Delilah

Let's take a closer look at things from her perspective, shall we?

pen and ink drawing of Samson, with sunburst design behind it

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taking a holy time out

Earthenware vessel filled with copper ore and mifepristone

ancient abortifacients, reproductive coercion, and bad translations

So... if this this "bitter water" induces pregnancy endings?? How would we understand this whole scenario?

Ancient vessels

debunking the conquest narrative

facing one of the hardest narrative arcs in the Bible armed with the truth of what really happened