love this piece in @literaryhub.bsky.social #medievalsky lithub.com/what-to-read...

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I’m researching Durupinar, which is back in the news as the supposed remains of Noah’s Ark. It has quite a cast of characters! Throughout today, I’ll introduce some of them—from the captain who spotted it in an aerial photograph to the folks behind Noah’s Ark Scans. #NoahsArk

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Mark doesn’t know Hamas from a hole in the ground #maklelan3480 youtu.be/qYpIruNruSw

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Leviticus 16 sends the scapegoat "to Azazel" without saying what or where Azazel is. The Aramaic Targum Pseudo-Jonathan resolves the ambiguity by making Azazel a place, naming the exact rocky desert, Beth-hadurey, where the goat is sent. #intertextuality #bible

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Technically Satan isn’t in the Torah! At least not as a figure in the way this seems intended. Acting as a “satan,” meaning an adversary in Hebrew, does happen.

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