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Footnote 5 - Unlikely Heroes
Footnote 4 - Unlikely Heroes
Footnote 3 - Unlikely Heroes
Notwithstanding the remarkable presentation of women throughout the Bible, almost without doubt the authors responsible for the biblical material were men. It is true that in general, ancient Near Eastern literature, including the Bible, is anonymous, and therefore one rightly could argue that “he or she” is called for when referring to the author. But when we possess the names of scribes, as we do from ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, they are invariably men; with no evidence to the contrary, I assume the same is true of Israel.
Footnote 2 - Unlikely Heroes
See Lawrence E. Stager, “The Song of Deborah—Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not,” BAR 15:01.
Footnote 1 - Unlikely Heroes
Footnote 2 - Bible Books
The idiom means “every man,” as the story was composed long before the invention of urinals. For more on this phrase—and on a medieval manuscript that was almost as bold as Baker’s—see Peter J. Leithart, “David’s Threat to Nabal,” BR 18:05.
Footnote 1 - Bible Books
Footnote 5 - How December 25 Became Christmas
In the West (and eventually everywhere), the Easter celebration was later shifted from the actual day to the following Sunday. The insistence of the eastern Christians in keeping Easter on the actual 14th day caused a major debate within the church, with the easterners sometimes referred to as the Quartodecimans, or “Fourteenthers.”
Footnote 4 - How December 25 Became Christmas
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