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Relatedly, saying Jesus was "a Palestinian Jew" makes sense in English because Palaistínē was the most widespread Greek term for the southern Levant since Herodotus and Aristotle. It's a normal exonym for Judea in the way that "Germany" is a normal exonym for Deutschland.

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What if the Torah never became authoritative? The usual story is it was more like interesting divine advice until the Hellenistic period when it became canonical in an agonizingly drawn-out processl. What it was only the Halakha, the traditions around it, that ever really had authority?

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Publishing now! Suggests that human dignity and equality under God can be used to address the most intractable moral problems of our time: sexual abuse, racism, environmental degradation, and more. Request an exam copy: https://bit.ly/49RgTWE

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Not sure if anyone has written about this, but in the latest trove of Epstein documents there's a letter from him to his last gf, Belarusian Karina Shuliak, where he talks about why Christianity is the best religion—because it "doesn't TRY to make people be good" and forgives all future sin.

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